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by albeec13 4594 days ago
Doesn't posting your public key for all to see on the internet mean any authorities you're trying to avoid giving access to your data can simply use said public key and get it anyway?
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To decrypt messages, you need a private key, not a public key. On Syme, private keys are only available to you, and public keys are only available to your group members. We don't have access to either one of those.

If you're interested in learning more about how our crypto system works, you can check out our white paper on Github (https://github.com/symeapp/syme).