On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Tao Effect <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cracking the usable key verification problem. This move brings WhatsApp to > the same level of security as iMessage (or better, given the forward > security), but WhatsApp/Facebook could still do a switcheroo on people's > keys. TextSecure never really figured this out IMO - it still expects > people to manually compare long strings of hex. > > > I will, a > > s seems to be my role here, recommend the blockchain and a system like > DNSChain for solving this problem. :-) > And I will, as seems to be *my* role here, recommend checking out keybase.io, which you can use without trusting, and provides what smells to me like extremely practical probabilistic key<=>person mapping confidence. - Tim Bray (If you’d like to send me a private message, see https://keybase.io/timbray)
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