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Julian Andres Klode 🏳️‍🌈Aug 31, 2023

@ekis @taxet I'm sorry I don't understand that reply.

You said they don't know who is talking to who.

I say they need to know which user is talking to which user as they need to route the messages to the right devices, especially with push notifications they need to know who to send one when a message is being sent.

Because otherwise they would need to send a push notification for every message in the network to everyone and let the client decide which is infeasible.

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taxet

@juliank @ekis correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t that the whole point of sealed sender: you don’t need to know who’s chatting with who, just where each message is headed. Or that’s at least what I understood from this: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/

Technology preview: Sealed sender for Signal

In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name, ...

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