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arXiv:2002.04609cs.CR

Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage

Kee Jefferys, Maxim Shishmarev, Simon Harman

Abstract

Session is an open-source, public-key-based secure messaging application which uses a set of decentralised storage servers and an onion routing protocol to send end-to-end encrypted messages with minimal exposure of user metadata. It does this while providing the common features expected of mainstream messaging applications, such as multi-device syncing, offline inboxes, and voice/video calling.

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  1. White Noise – secure and private messenger 1 comment
  2. Session Encrypted Messenger 1 comment

    • The whitepaper at [1] is more impressive than I expected it to be, not for what is built today (which on a quick read appears to be rather unexciting), but for the class of attacks recognised as unsolved, and identified as requiring future work. Improvements identified include…

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  3. Russia lifts ban on Telegram 1 comment

    • Links for the curious: https://getsession.org https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04609.pdf https://github.com/Loki-project Seems to somehow be associated with the working group for Loki cryptocurrency, but not using blockchain to store messages or message contents, per FAQ.…

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