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by goldsteinq 262 days ago
I’m still not sure how do you even compromise a key without also compromising message history. The keys are stored on-device, along with associated history. If attacker has access to the keys, they also have access to all the previous messages stored on the same device. Unless you’re using auto-delete with short period on all your messaging, which I would think is not common, it would seem that you gain nothing by ratcheting.