There are two mental models for designing a cryptosystem that offers end-to-end encryption to all of its users. The first is the Signal model. Predicated on Moxie’s notion that the ecosystem …
IMO it should be some sort of private key to negotiate keys, but each message (or at least set of messages) encrypted with its own key that you can safely share with the server owners to report spam/bad actors.
Wow, sounds great. Maybe we do get private DMs in the fediverse, finally!
What do you mean? We already get DMs here on Lemmy. Are they not private?
They are not. Your server admin and the admins of the server you send the message to could read the message, because its not encrypted.
IMO it should be some sort of private key to negotiate keys, but each message (or at least set of messages) encrypted with its own key that you can safely share with the server owners to report spam/bad actors.
Yeah, I’ve got a proposal that’s being worked on: https://github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification