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Don’t Use Session (Signal Fork) (soatok.blog)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

But the title is a little click-baity,
"Session's encryption is not the best",
would be a more honest title.

I agree that this would be a better title, but it still belies the deeper points: the Session devs made sloppy or weak cryptographic decisions when there's no seemingly reasonable justification for them. It points to a lack of understanding, ignorance, or possibly malicious intent (though the last seems less likely to me).

So, what happens when they do something really wrong? Doesn't seem that far-fetched that it's a matter of "when," given how they've implemented everything else.