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@uhuru
#DeltaChat has no forward secrecy.
And depended on SHA-1 and using MD5.
Both are considered weak cryptography if I'm not mistaken.
While I believe deltachat to be a great app with good use case, it's not what I'm looking for.

#xmpp ecosystem is?/was! pretty bad in serving proper e2ee cross platform implementation.
Till recently there was only conversations as a usable app. Since some weeks ago it seems that @dino now also offers e2ee by default. But also both conversations and Dino using an outdated omemo specification, and are by that not compatible with @kaidan.
I will reconsider xmpp when they adapt the newer specification.

@briar not mentioned, but also no, cause it's not working on #TailsOS or on android with Orbot.
So very much unusable, since it's not running on the platforms we use.

#simplex, no, I don't like nor trust the dev.

#cwtch, yes, maybe

Quick tip for secure messaging:
End-to-end encryption is essential, but it’s not the whole story.

Apps can still log metadata—who you talked to, when, and how often. That info paints a picture, even if messages stay private.

Choose tools that minimize both like Signal or SimpleX.

#Privacy#Meta#tech

Finde den passenden Messenger: Unser Schnell-Check zu Sicherheit, Datenschutz und Bedienung zeigt, welche Messenger überzeugen und welche nicht. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/die-grosse-mess

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so is this #simplex a thing or not?

Anyway i think it needs privately hosted servers to be a real alternative to centralized services like Signal.
For the fun of it i set up a SMP & XFTP server - hosted in Germany. No Onion adresses at the moment, may follow later.

VPS is contracted for 1 year, so the servers will stay around atleast until April '26 (maybe even longer).

SMP: smp://rTQAEQ_imEoNOkRqOIFBeNfZCSk3OSg39DTAuNn4voM=:qvDriJcHnDZe62I5qPqU@smp.clttr.info

XFTP: xftp://JqCuLmVngaqbdAcjhszOEl2oNL_TWIIj9HVNSIlJrj0=:GFAIcBb3TtDZ4vE0IanS@xftp.clttr.info:4433

AdminForge has SMP servers as well: https://simplex.adminforge.de/

#simplexchat

simplex.adminforge.deSimpleX Chat Server

For giggles, I'm periodically calling on 146.52 from the mobile while my kiddo has lessons, if anyone thinks they are within simplex range of Lititz PA

Times like these are the only ones where I miss having HF in the car. (I'm not in the car much anymore so it's hardly worth the effort to get it all set up for HF)

#HamRadio
#Simplex

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Some of you may have heard of #simplex which likes to elevate itself as "the first messenger without user-ids" ... a goal, similar to ours, of not letting the transport layer know about who talks. Only we are doing it in the email system, fully interoperable with tens of thousands of existing email servers and other #openpgp endpoints. The email system is much more than SMTP/IMAP or even openpgp btw ... there is plenty of room for radical shifts and new takes. We are just starting :)