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> It's not a technical problem

How do you do encryption?





A probable implementation is that you bootstrap the initial key exchange using web PKI (if you want to talk to Alice@example.com then your client makes a TLS connection to example.com and asks for Alice's public key) and thereafter you use something like the Signal ratchet thing.

That technical solution is significant and unsolved. I don’t think it would likely work without some major new standards either.

Serving 2+ billion daily users is a technical challenge at least



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