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What is the community's opinion on Session and Session Automated Software? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As most people here might know, Session utilises a TOR-like onion routing system with some changes to route traffic. The username is the public key whilst the password is the private key.

Recently, a new project built on top of this seems to be in the works: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/freespeech/

I'd like to know the community's opinion of session and how much would you trust its technology. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It is not a fork of signal. They use the Signal protocol for encryption and probably the way messages are composed, thats basically it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. They’ve referred to themselves as a fork of Signal but maybe a bit of an oversimplification

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah it's signal with perfect forward secrecy removed and a onion network added on top.

Bonus points all attachments are centralized to servers in Canada.....