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by upofadown 2129 days ago
It's based on the concepts of OTR but it has gone in different directions to actually implement those ideas.
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(DH-ratchet is still there. 1536-bit FF-DH was replaced with X3DH etc, but the basic idea is still there. Adding hash ratchet for non-round-trip messaging was a good idea, as was pre-keys stored on server. IMO it's fair to say it's been expanded around OTR)