As most people here might know, Session utilises a TOR-like onion routing system with some changes to route traffic. The username is the public key whilst the password is the private key.

Recently, a new project built on top of this seems to be in the works: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/freespeech/

I’d like to know the community’s opinion of session and how much would you trust its technology. Thanks!

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    Session is very much not a clone of Signal. They forked it way back and the entire back end and front end are different. Session uses the lokinet behind the scenes which stores messages encrypted and routes traffic. Session isn’t completely decentralized to my knowledge as its a work in progress but for now it is harder to block or censor compared to signal.

    Even if you have your doubts, its been audited and found to be reasonably secure so it shouldn’t be a security risk. I still don’t use it due to its lack of invites but if they add stable calls I might just switch. For now I use it to send text between my devices.

        • Pantherina@feddit.de
          1·
          9 months ago

          Localsend can also do text!

          An alternative that I use is QR codes

          Android:

          Linux:

          • Decoder with the fix mentioned on the Link. That at least deals with autodeletion of history, but the text still has no password function. (Basically I use the awesomeness of Flatpak app storage and always delete it after the process is finished, works flawlessly and can be used with every app)