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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
To put things in perspective: The most interesting thing I've done in the past few years is boring, unglamorous infrastructure design that is only fully comprehensible to someone with deep cryptography expertise, but comes in a simple enough package to vaguely understand and hopefully work with: https://publickey.directory
This isn't the kind of thing that's going to get 10 million views on TikTok tomorrow.
At best, when the Fediverse goes all in on end-to-end encryption, it'll solve one of the hard problems that most people who decide to bolt encryption onto their messaging app inevitably punt because of its difficulty.
But the thing that most people will actually give a shit about is "zomg mastodon has end-to-end encryption now!!!" and maybe have one less reason to avoid it.
And the Fedi folks can still ship E2EE without key transparency.
It would be a terrible idea, but not one without precedent or forthcoming disaster.