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by haffenloher 2358 days ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to say, but remote attestation is in fact exactly what they're doing with their contact discovery: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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SGX is crypto that is already exploited and broken, it offers no real use in this context.

Oh, and I forgot, you do need to essentially blindly trust Intel.

I don't really care and think this is all a red herring, since every other mainstream messenger doesn't protect this information at all, but instead stores it in plaintext databases.
Yes, but it's barely better when reconstructing the social graph is so easy.

Also, Matrix offers a possible alternative.

What makes you believe that?