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by gorgonical 1696 days ago
It sounds like they are making the claim that they can revoke access to data immediately, but they say you don't need to store the content on-device. I looked up "key displacement" and can't find any immediate references, though I'm not an expert.

My understanding is that if I acquire a ciphertext encrypted with key v1, I will always be able to decrypt it. Any "asynchronous" protocol will have this problem, right? I can be revoked access if I need a piece of the key from a trusted party or if that v1 of the ciphertext can be guaranteed deleted, but caching old versions of keys and files means I will always retain access to the versions of files I ever had access to.

Could someone with a bit more understanding shed some light on this?