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by zmanian 3688 days ago
The Signal protocol is for all intents asymptote the state of the art in the design of a secure messaging protocol. There doesn't seem to be any meaningful improvements to the design without changing the requirements.

New requirements might be

- Post Quantum forward secrecy

- Groups messaging with transcript verification

- Security weakness in x25519 or AES-CBC-HMAC or SHA256 primitives.

If you don't have any new requirements, crypto protocol developer time is a scarce resource. Why reinvent the state of the art?