Hi, I wanna know what is the most secure and best messaging app/platform… Need an app that is crossplatform and has a very good numbers of features and security. (And it has to be FLOSS) I thought about XMPP clients, Signal, Session, IRC clients… Propose and explain me your choice

  • Lung
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    326 days ago

    Absolutely false, you can store data encrypted on the blockchain, such that it can be read only by a recipient. In this way it functions no differently than sending an encrypted email. But Bitmessage isn’t even a cryptocurrency, it just uses the ideas from them

    • @[email protected]
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      126 days ago

      Why would you want to store messages, even encrypted ones, on a publicly accessible distributed database with no delete function?

      Bitmessage was created well before the concept of post quantum encryption was widely discussed, so it is not safe for that use case.

      • Lung
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        126 days ago

        … because it’s publicly accessible with no delete function

        • @[email protected]
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          025 days ago

          Correct, and that is bad. Very bad. The fact that in BitMessage, “every message gets sent to everyone” is something nobody wants or asked for.

          Seems self-evident to me why the protocol has been languishing and mostly ignored for the past decade or so.