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by xnull2guest 4206 days ago
> End-to-end encryption is the natural solution to the problem of universal surveillance

Well, it's one small step at least. Surveillance can learn very large amounts from meta-data, file types and sizes, access and upload times, it doesn't prevent them from hacking into endpoints (noted as a popular tactic of the NSA), it doesn't fix the problem of NSL/financial/legal(CALEA etc) leverage to backdoor the systems or from insider attacks (look at what happened to Skype's E2E), nor does it account for compromised cryptographic standards (which is MUCH more complicated than which symmetric algorithm you pick to encrypt data).

> I'll treat it as a untrusted demo until it's had more test mileage and outside code review.

:D

Should be standard for crypto products. Glad to see it here.