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mr_mitm on March 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI

Speaking of which, why doesn't Threema or Signal use the web of trust? They already have the key verification feature. Is it due to privacy concerns?

__MatrixMan__ on March 17, 2023 [–]

Signal didn't store your social graph on the server, it's only device side (privacy reasons). So a query for transitive trust would have to be implemented in a p2p way. I could see that becoming problematically combinatoric.

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