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Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage — mentioned by STELLANOVA

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:45:30 GMT

How is this better than Session and how it compares? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04609

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Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage — mentioned by dhx

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 16:24:24 GMT

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: 1) Encrypted messages should have a constant size (padded). Note that the Signal protocol used by Session currently uses variable length messages[2]. 2) Encrypted messages should be sent as noise by clients through the onion network and back to themselves at random intervals frequent enough that messages to/from other…

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Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage — mentioned by aspenmayer

Fri, 19 Jun 2020 13:44:45 GMT

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. https://docs.loki.network/LokiServices/Messenger/Session/ https://docs.loki.network/Mining/MiningOverview/ https://github.com/fireice-uk/xmr-stak

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Session: End-To-End Encrypted Conversations With Minimal Metadata Leakage — HN submission

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 17:44:28 GMT

Session: Model for End-to-End Encrypted Conversations with Min Metadata Leakage

3 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.