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I made a little desktop end to end encrypted messaging app

• parliament32 7y ago
  Why?
  • garyhbutton 7y ago
    I wanted to send my tax person my documents but he used email which I am a little uncomfortable using so I figured I could build an app
    • g105b 7y ago
      Reminds me of _The General Problem_ [1]. [1]: https://www.xkcd.com/974/ https://www.xkcd.com/974/
      • garyhbutton 7y ago
        lol
• asdfasdf1231 7y ago
  end to end without self hosted open source servers have (among others) a tradeoff: either opaque server you can't trust at all, or no offline messages. Which one you decided on?
  • garyhbutton 7y ago
    I was thinking of making the client code open source (eventually) so that users can know that their privacy is respected
    • asdfasdf1231 7y ago
      So you choose opaque server. At least do not hide the offline validation as deep as whatsapp and others do. also work with linux/android distros do distribute the built from source client. otherwise, it's just more of the same