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?
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