Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
  • CriticalMiss@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I understand that this goes against the nature of what signal believes in. But in my opinion the only way forward for signal is to license their code under the AGPL and offer the big tech companies that rely on their encryption to purchase a custom license. The other messaging apps will use signal’s protocol anyway, may as well make them pay the running costs.

    • Poutinetown@lemmy.caEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      But the protocol has already been published and there’s not much changes needed (except maybe the quantum layer?). Charging a custom license would only push the others to develop a different protocol, one that might not be as private compared to Signal.