• 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.