Hi, I wanna know what is the most secure and best messaging app/platform… Need an app that is crossplatform and has a very good numbers of features and security. (And it has to be FLOSS) I thought about XMPP clients, Signal, Session, IRC clients… Propose and explain me your choice

  • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Okay thanks, and when you speak about “crypto based messaging” what does it means?

    • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Various schemes to use the cryptography of blockchains to send messages in a decentralized and theoretically secure way. The classic version of this used by early darknets was Bitmessage. There’s some more recent takes via Ethereum too

          • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Absolutely false, you can store data encrypted on the blockchain, such that it can be read only by a recipient. In this way it functions no differently than sending an encrypted email. But Bitmessage isn’t even a cryptocurrency, it just uses the ideas from them