Introducing Alacrity to Federated Cryptography
There are two mental models for designing a cryptosystem that offers end-to-end encryption to all of its users. The first is the Signal model. Predicated on Moxie's notion that the ecosystem is moving, Signal (and similar apps) maintain some modicum of centralized control over the infrastructure and deployment of their app. While there are obvious downsides to this approach, it allows them to quickly roll out…
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