• onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks.

      So it has a new ID for each tunnel/channel/whatever. As usual, that comes with the downside of discoverability: how do you find all your contacts when installing the app? You always need an out of band transfer of the user ID - be it email, username, or a transient one like this.

      I’m not sure how much better that is than existing chat apps that don’t have discoverability.

        • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          How?

          If the OOB is not encrypted --> hello MITM attack or impersonation (unless of course you’re physically in the same place, which is quite limiting)

          If it’s encrypted, why not just keep using encrypted channel? I have to find an encrypted channel to initiate an encrypted chat?

          I’m not seeing the benefit

          • BearOfaTime
            41·
            1 year ago

            I can give someone my ID in person. I control how it’s delivered.