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 I would get off signal now 
 Why? Signal is fighting against this E2EE encroachment. 
 Why? Signal is in fact protesting against such regulations or policies that will undermine encryption and privacy. 
 they are obviously warning everyone to get off their platform  
 They are warning everyone that encryption will die on every platform if this is passed as a law. That means that any communication done via any platform should be un-encrypted by default or looks like someone (mostly the dev) should take accountability for un-encrypting it when any govt institution requires it, else it will not be usable in EU.

This is how I am reading her statement. I think we should support Signal in their fight against such insidious policies, because this will come to impact Nostr at some point. 
 that's why you get off "platforms" and use open source only  
 Signal is Open-Source...?

I think you wanted to say something federated 🤷 
 how are they going to add a back door then  
 Well that's what the EU wants to happen, Signal won't do it :P 
 Nor sessions 
 Session still suffes from inferior cryptography ever since they've switched away from double ratchet.  
 The app is different from the oxen crypto.It's works a lot like nostr with nsec/npub keys 
 if suffers from the fact that libsodium (their encryption library) is inherently weaker than something that implemebts the Double Ratchet encryption algorithm. The most notable deficiency is that it doesn't to Perfect Forward Secrecy, meaning if *one* of a chat's keys leak, your entire chat history leaks, not just one message.

These are important things that they've failed to address. 
 What is yall’s opinion of SimpleX ? 
 I use it and I like it.

Uses double-ratchet from Signal + some neat quantum resistance stuff, uses user-selected relays to send messages and doesn't use persistent user identifiers. Lots of metadata privacy to be had :) 
 Is it good for day-to-day use like to talk to my family, for example?  
 I would say yes, just make sure you select the kind of notifications you want 
 generally yeah, unless you're looking for some more fun social features (stickers for instance) 
 If a public key can be found using a private key, is there a possibility that institutions with the best mathematicians cannot reverse engineer it and apply that as an algorithm depending on the type of encryption? 
 But also, it gets you off iOS, Android, Windows. We need a Linux smartphone... 
 True 
 I would get off Europe now 
 Libsodium? Its a swarm system. Everything is hidden, metadata and identity n you can put a delete message timer within a time frame.  
 yes, libsodium, the encryption library they use.

https://getsession.org/faq#libsodium 
 Thanks will ask a friend to look into