• onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Thanks.

        So it has a new ID for each tunnel/channel/whatever. As usual, that comes with the downside of discoverability: how do you find all your contacts when installing the app? You always need an out of band transfer of the user ID - be it email, username, or a transient one like this.

        I’m not sure how much better that is than existing chat apps that don’t have discoverability.

        • whale@lemm.ee
          2·
          2 years ago

          It doesn’t have any discoverability, but it does have backup and restore, something that other apps without discoverability tend to not have.

          Unless you have other apps in mind that I’m not aware of.

            • whale@lemm.ee
              2·
              2 years ago

              But Signal already has discoverability via phone number ID.

              (I was thinking of Session, which ripped off Signal and lost basically everything good about it in the process)

          • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
            11·
            2 years ago

            How?

            If the OOB is not encrypted --> hello MITM attack or impersonation (unless of course you’re physically in the same place, which is quite limiting)

            If it’s encrypted, why not just keep using encrypted channel? I have to find an encrypted channel to initiate an encrypted chat?

            I’m not seeing the benefit