Eugen RochkoSep 19, 2017
Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Pavel Durov’s ‘Trump logic’ https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/18/signal-moxie-marlinspike-techcrunch-disrupt-sf-2017-telegram/
Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Pavel Durov’s ‘Trump logic’

Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017, Signal's at times elusive privacy revolutionary Moxie Marlinspike spoke modestly about how his secure text message app..

Show threadEugen RochkoSep 19, 2017
Telegram is a shady app. They rolled their own crypto, put up a "challenge" to break it with conditions that would've made most crypto unbreakable; most importantly, they do not even encrypt anything by default
Show threadpasqui023Sep 19, 2017
@Gargron what would be a user friendly, encrypted chat app?
Show threadEugen RochkoSep 19, 2017
@pasqui023 Wire seems ok
Show threadMasoud AbkenarSep 19, 2017
@Gargron What is your opinion about Jabber with the new OMEMO encryption scheme? I test Conversations on Android and it is quite good.
Show threadEugen Rochko
@masoud OMEMO is good and I believe it powers most good e2e apps now. Conversations, Signal, WhatsApp, Wire
Sep 19, 2017 at 4:24pmWeb
Show threadMasoud AbkenarSep 19, 2017
@Gargron They are all based on Double Ratchet Algorithm. But the big difference of Jabber (aka XMPP) to all the rest is its decentralization. I haven't yet given up on a decentralized messaging platform, although I know that it's very hard to do right.
Show threadEugen RochkoSep 19, 2017
@masoud Matrix might also interest you