Google End-to-End: Any update?

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5 points by mukmuk 3834 days ago

It's been a year since Google posted this update[1] on their end-to-end project and a month since the last commit.[2]

Yahoo announced a forked end-to-end extension in March[3] and while commits have been more frequent[4], they haven't released either.

Does anyone have any update on these?

[1] https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-to-end-to-end.html

[2] https://github.com/google/end-to-end/commits/master

[3] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption

[4] https://github.com/yahoo/end-to-end/commits/master

1 comments

bjornedstrom 3834 days ago

Just a guess, but it could be that interest in the standard has died down a little bit as an updated OpenPGP RFC is in progress.

Anecdote time: In the summer of 2014 I got a bad case of Mononucleosis and decided to implement OpenPGP from scratch. By modern standards, OpenPGP is fairly horrible and as soon as I got an excuse to postpone this project (the new RFC) I did so. :)

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