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maqp
on June 21, 2025
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Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger...
>No forward secrecy and supports sending unencrypted messages as well for people who don't have pgp.
JFC. There's a reason Signal dropped SMS support. What an insane design decision.
joecool1029
on June 21, 2025
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FWIW textsecure (signal's SMS predecessor) did provide forward secrecy. Details are here:
https://signal.org/blog/asynchronous-security/
maqp
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Yeah but it later also supported non-E2EE SMSs and those were a security risk and they rightfully dropped the support. It was not ideal your grandma thinks any message sent in Signal is safe, when that wasn't the case.
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JFC. There's a reason Signal dropped SMS support. What an insane design decision.