Under the hood, we are using IETF Internet Messaging specifications commonly tagged as "email". Sounds old, right? Actually there is a lot of new stuff going on! For example, #chatmail apps now fully support:
- RFC9788 ("Header Protection") to achieve minimal metadata
- RFC9580 ("OpenPGP") to use modern cryptography
By comparison, "Messaging Layer Security (MLS)" has an older numbered RFC9420 (and doesn't have mass-usable app releases).
Maybe time to revisit old/new assumptions? :)
@delta hi! My friends trying to switch to DC, but most of the chatmail servers are blocked.
So I’m still wondering if you have any plans for message transit/proxy via non-trusted regular email servers. Email traffic itself is not blocked and some domestic email servers are reachable even if strict allow lists are in effect. Obviously traffic itself will be visible to email provider, but if it just goes tor-likesh to random chatmail servers without disclosing actual recipient mailbox will give them option to use DC without trying to find working VPN
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