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Those research papers are written by a person that is (was?) making a hostile fork of the protocol. That is not to say everything in there was wrong, but it was
by driminicus 6y ago
Those research papers are written by a person that is (was?) making a hostile fork of the protocol. That is not to say everything in there was wrong, but it was blown out of proportion from my perspective.
Also: they are fairly old by now, and most complaints that have merit have been addressed.
- neiljohnson 6y ago> Also: they are fairly old by now, and most complaints that have merit have been addressed. This blog post goes into more detail https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-matrix https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-...
- Arathorn 6y agoYeah, sadly the ‘research paper’ wasn’t updated after we fixed the issues it highlighted; see also https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-synapse-1-4-and-riot-1-4 https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-s...