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by heinrich5991 2581 days ago
>If I keep your messages encrypted in my database and your keys on another unonnected database in another building, would it then be fair to say that I store your messages in plaintext?

If you can still access them, I don't think it is fair (or maybe rather: it is misleading) to say that you store them encrypted.

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If you cannot trust me it doesn't matter.

If you trust me but are worried that someone else might break into the server it makes a huge difference.