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  @fishidwardrobe I don't think there's any requirement for phone numbers in the #Signal Protocol. They all sound similar but the Signal Protocol (the technical spec; also used by WhatsApp), The Signal Foundation (the non-profit entity behind Signal), and Signal (the messaging service) are all different things. @fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk @dansup@mastodon.social @Yuvalne@433.world no, my guess is that it'll use the encryption standards provided by libsignal without using signal's services.  @fishidwardrobe @dansup @Yuvalne No, it's used in Skype as well where you're not forced to link it.  @fishidwardrobe @dansup @Yuvalne Nope, the Signal Protocol isn't equivalent to the Signal Messenger. For example, the email provider Tutanota uses the Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption and obviously doesn't require phone numbers. Signal Messenger only uses phone numbers for sign-up and for “better” contact discovery, though they're working on user names as well.  Please consider MLS, end-to-end encryption protocol standardized by IETF: https://blog.phnx.im/rfc-9420-mls/ Matrix and some other messengers are going to adopt it, so there's a possibility that we can interoperate with them in the future. |
@dansup @Yuvalne Any the reason you're not going with MLS from the IETF? It seems like the whole industry is going that way because of the Digital Markets Act.