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SimpleX Chat: Private and Secure messaging (monero.town)

submitted 1 year ago by Wave@monero.town to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://monero.town/post/934733

SimpleX Chat

Private and Secure messaging platform without user IDs

Will this new messenger replace Signal?

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by Evgeny Poberezkin

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[–] vim_b@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OOB is arguably better for privacy.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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