Matthew Green / Some reflections on cryptographic engineering::
Analysis of the new XChat of X shows that X can probably decipher user messages because it holds the private keys of users on its servers– Matthew Garrett has a good article on the new encryption protocol from end -to -end (uh, x), which is now called XChat. The TL; Dr Du Post de Matthew…
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