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How do you guys feel about Session? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by ItsYourBoyHalo@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've used it before, but I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Would you use it on a day-to-day basis?

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[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is there a feature request to add PFS again?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

https://getsession.org/session-protocol-technical-information

Nope. Whenever anybody ask them, they refer to this and close the ticket

I find their technical rationale, while welcome, a lot of hand waving to say they couldn't figure out how to implement it, but it was not important because it's not a big threat, because if somebody has the device they can get all the messages on the device anyway....

Losing perfect forward secrecy for "simpler code" is a strong design choice they made. I respect them for documenting this, I wish them the best of success, but that's not a trade-off I'm willing to make for no benefit