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by 1101010010 1160 days ago
> There’s a big difference between identity keys and session keys. It makes total sense to use lots of throw away keys (this is how tls works) but making a new identity key for every message is madness.

That's not what happens (new identity for each message) and compromise of a Signal identity key has no impact on message security, unlike GPG. Also it's not how all TLS works; it's how TLS works with perfect secrecy ciphers only.

> There is no empirical evidence for how frequently to rotate your identity keys.

Certainly not if you refuse to look for it.

> A few years ago NIST started recommending never changing passwords unless they are compromised

Passwords derive session keys (cookies) which rotate very frequently. You have a lot to learn about computer security, I'm happy to make some reading recommendations if you're sincerely interested.

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I'm not a part of this conversation, but I'd love to see those recommendations if you're willing to share.