A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol
Its great that the underlying Signal protocol is secure, my major worry is how do we get more people to use it, and how do we make it more reliable?<p>As it stands right now, Signal is used exclusively by the moderately technically inclined, with a little over 1 million users. In a perfect world, it would be bigger than Whatsapp, which uses libsignal but has many metadata related issues, and also misses many older demographics in the US. Additionally, server reliability has been something like 710hrs out of 720hrs usually every month, with an outage just this last Saturday from 19:51 to 22:08 PST for everything but ZRTP calls.<p>I know Moxie will likely never allow interoperability with his servers after the cluster that was CyanogenMod WhisperPush interop, but we need something to allow for self hosting or alternative hosting, Signal's servers are not bulletproof and a local server in remote areas can be invaluble, essentially XMPP with Conversations is all we have in this arena right now.