Barking Up The Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal Nor Nude

One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, "Know your audience." But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you're ushered quickly onto the actual tactile aspects of writing--with the hope that some seed was planted that will sprout later in your education. Science communication is famously a hard problem.

http://soatok.blog/2025/08/25/barking-up-the-ratchet-tree-mls-is-neither-royal-nor-nude/

An essay explaining why we don't plan to use MLS: https://www.poberezkin.com/posts/2025-08-12-mls-the-naked-king-of-end-to-end-encryption.html

A sidenote is that Nostr's Whitenoise avoids its main problem.

TL;DR: MLS security model is "Trust me bro".