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Delta Chat: encrypted chat with boring technology

Source: Rafael Kassner ·

Hi, A couple of days ago I’ve heard about Delta Chat , and for once I got thrilled with some piece of technology again. At the surface it’s just a chat app to the likes of Telegram, Signal and WhatsApp. The exciting part, however, is that is uses plenty of open standards technology under the hood. It’s a chat app built on top the regular e-mail protocols, SMTP and IMAP, with a sprinkle of PGP to make it end-to-end encrypted. It has the same secure initial key exchange issue that PGP e-mail has, but at least now we have an interface that is straight up easy to use, specially f

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