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I've used it before, but I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Would you use it on a day-to-day basis?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

removed perfect forward secrecy because they found it hard to implement.

That's just a blatant lie. There's an entire blog post about it. You don't have to lie about it just because you're not smart enough to understand it.

https://getsession.org/blog/session-protocol-technical-information

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not a lie. I have read their post. And my interpretation reading between the lines is they dropped it because of complexity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can interpret it however you like but that's not what it says.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Fair enough. They did not explicitly say they removed it for complexity.

The facts are: they started with a protocol that had perfect forward secrecy, and they removed it, but not for philosophical reasons.

They were not opposed to perfect forward secrecy

In today's ecosystem there are products that use onion networks and provide perfect for secrecy like simple x, and briar over tor...

You're welcome to make any decision you like, if you want to use session go right ahead. I'm not going to stop you, and I'm happy you're doing so. We're all better for choice