Encrypted messengers: Riot, not Signal, is the future
This topic has been beaten to death on HN over the last year (other people can provide links to discussions, with Moxie participating).<p>I think something worth keeping in mind is that almost everyone who works in secure messaging agrees on one thing: that electronic mail is not the future of secure communication.<p>There&#x27;s no fundamental reason why that should be the case. The store-and-forward model used by SMTP could be made to work for asynchronous secure group messaging. You can get forward and future security with it. It can interoperate with existing email addresses. All of that can be made to work.<p>But it is the case. Email won&#x27;t be a secure group communication system. The reason for that is that email is <i>federated</i> and thus permanently mired in the lowest common denominator of mainstream email clients.<p>I think reasonable people can disagree about whether it&#x27;s tractable to create a federated secure group messaging system with what we know right now. But I do not think it&#x27;s reasonable to suggest that the concern (federation = lowest common denominator security) is invalid. And that&#x27;s what this piece does.