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Simplex shy away from User ID, which means you are giving up something in exchange (notably no message encrypted-at-rest in their server): then the government can access the message contents from Simplex server.

It says so on their website:

"Only client devices store user profiles, contacts and groups; the messages are sent with 2-layer End-to-end encryption."

What it does NOT say is that message content remains encrypted on their server like Signal does.

It is like time, money, resource: pick only two. But in secured communication, that would be personal anonymity, personal privacy, and personal security: only can pick two.

https://simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works

parent egberts1 2 years ago

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