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0 pointsroamingnomadic6y ago0 comments

Signal uses the same public key/private key cryptography. Hopefully that makes more sense?

In any case, after reading the google doc more carefully, I see the idea isn't to be against the whole pub/private key authentication its just a proposal of how pgp works.

>age is not unauthenticated encryption, so the criticism does not apply.

yeah, I see. its pretty good actually.

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tptacek6y ago

Signal does not use "the same public key/private key cryptography", nor does it use a CA, or anything like a CA.

wolf550e6y ago

Double ratchet using Curve25519 and Ed25519 signatures is not at all the same asymmetric cryptography as PGP.