Do you prefer Threema, Signal or Matrix? Why?
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Of the three, Signal is the most secure. Now in about 2.5 seconds, someone is going to start screaming about the phone number requirement. This is used so that you can go from desktop to mobile with the same profile. You can set Signal to hide your phone number from everyone else but you. It's a non-issue.
There is a reason why Elon Musk doesn't let people post about Signal on his Nazi social network. Because it works.
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Of the three, Signal is the most secure. Now in about 2.5 seconds, someone is going to start screaming about the phone number requirement. This is used so that you can go from desktop to mobile with the same profile. You can set Signal to hide your phone number from everyone else but you. It's a non-issue.
There is a reason why Elon Musk doesn't let people post about Signal on his Nazi social network. Because it works.
You say this like username logins don’t exist
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
I prefer signal because it's been the easiest one to convince my friends and family to use. I have like 8 friends on Signal, the 1 I got onto Matrix quit after a week. Matrix I treat more like foss Discord so I only use it for communities. ElementX is really nice though so I have hope that eventually it could be as smooth to use as Signal.
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Of the three, Signal is the most secure. Now in about 2.5 seconds, someone is going to start screaming about the phone number requirement. This is used so that you can go from desktop to mobile with the same profile. You can set Signal to hide your phone number from everyone else but you. It's a non-issue.
There is a reason why Elon Musk doesn't let people post about Signal on his Nazi social network. Because it works.
Signal is the most secure
[citation needed]
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Signal is much more polished and less fragile than Matrix, but is pretty barebones especially in terms of features for large communities. Matrix additionally has a browser client and many non-Electron desktop clients. It's really close and depends on the use case imo. For personal messages I think I prefer Signal, for communities Matrix.
I haven't used Threema.
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Signal is the most secure
[citation needed]
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OK, and how is that different from the other chats?
You do know that at least Signal and Matrix use pretty much the same crypto, right?
And Matrix can be self-hosted, so I don't need to worry about what they can see anyway.
On this point alone Matrix appears more secure than Signal...And Threema is Switzerland-based, so by default it's more trustful than a USA-based company.
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Matrix because I can host it myself. I like self hosting. But I agree that it is the least polished of all.
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You say this like username logins don’t exist
No, we know that, but people will still come scream here that you need a phone to register anyway. It's all the time the same people. Not realizing that is the easiest onboard that all the normies are used to and an easy eay to control spam accounts.
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Signal is the most secure
[citation needed]
All the fucking people that actually know cryptography and are experts in their areas.
It's good to be inquisitive but at some point if a person is not qualified to understand either you gotta belief some authorative figure or pay someone you trust to go review the code if you still don't trust it.
Multiple experts have said for years that it's solid. There's audits out there. It's used in the most extreme places where people need to survive and commucate securely and governments keep screaming they need backdoors because they can't fo anything about it.
At some point the whole questioning it has to stop.
Continuing to eat garbage opinions from the internet and growing conspiracy theories eventually has a limit.
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Self hosted matrix with bridges to WhatsApp and telegram. What else....
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Of the three, Signal is the most secure. Now in about 2.5 seconds, someone is going to start screaming about the phone number requirement. This is used so that you can go from desktop to mobile with the same profile. You can set Signal to hide your phone number from everyone else but you. It's a non-issue.
There is a reason why Elon Musk doesn't let people post about Signal on his Nazi social network. Because it works.
It's an issue.
You can't create an account on desktop. You can't create multiple accounts. You can't create an account at all if you don't have a phone number. You can't create an account if your phone number's previous owner created an account. Signal can be subpoenaed for your phone number.
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No, we know that, but people will still come scream here that you need a phone to register anyway. It's all the time the same people. Not realizing that is the easiest onboard that all the normies are used to and an easy eay to control spam accounts.
I mean if you acknowledge that user names can be used like any other website then your point doesn’t work. They don’t need my phone number. Most applications don’t need it but they do? Come on.
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It's an issue.
You can't create an account on desktop. You can't create multiple accounts. You can't create an account at all if you don't have a phone number. You can't create an account if your phone number's previous owner created an account. Signal can be subpoenaed for your phone number.
Is it possible to use a number different to the one on the device you use? Seems like a simple workaround to use a throwaway SIM to set up, and then use it with that number moving forwards.
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OK, and how is that different from the other chats?
You do know that at least Signal and Matrix use pretty much the same crypto, right?
And Matrix can be self-hosted, so I don't need to worry about what they can see anyway.
On this point alone Matrix appears more secure than Signal...And Threema is Switzerland-based, so by default it's more trustful than a USA-based company.
The metadata is really important especially if you or anyone you talk to ends up being targeted. 95% of intelligence work is mapping out adversaries' communications networks..if you have that, you don't need to decrypt the contents because you already know who is talking to who. The federation of metadata alone is reason to avoid matrix for anything important.
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Post-quantum isn't really a big problem because it will be a very long time before there are viable quantum computers (maybe never). You should focus on the very real risks of security breaks from normal negligence and design errors.
Threema seems pretty unpopular, so the risk is highest. Signal and Matrix are both popular and have a lot of scrutiny on their cryptography.
All 3 have open source clients, but Signal contains some binary blobs. Only Matrix has an open source server, though end-to-end encryption enforced by the client alleviates most of the concern of proprietary servers. All 3 support end-to-end encryption.
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Post-quantum isn't really a big problem because it will be a very long time before there are viable quantum computers (maybe never). You should focus on the very real risks of security breaks from normal negligence and design errors.
Threema seems pretty unpopular, so the risk is highest. Signal and Matrix are both popular and have a lot of scrutiny on their cryptography.
All 3 have open source clients, but Signal contains some binary blobs. Only Matrix has an open source server, though end-to-end encryption enforced by the client alleviates most of the concern of proprietary servers. All 3 support end-to-end encryption.
Threema has been audited multiple times.
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Is it possible to use a number different to the one on the device you use? Seems like a simple workaround to use a throwaway SIM to set up, and then use it with that number moving forwards.
That sounds like an awful lot of work to workaround a problem that shouldn't have existed in the first place.
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So, I have a Threema license, but from what I've seen its encryption isn't post-quantum. Signal's encryption seems the strongest. I host my own matrix server.
Also, I kind of don't care where the servers are or which provider it is. Everything is encrypted anyway.
Self-hosted Matrix.
It still needs polish, but it's on a good path. Meanwhile others are centralized by a single authority with an easy target painted on them for government coercion along with multiple other attack surfaces, and even information easily traced to PII.
By contrast, a drop in the ocean is far more likely to not be targetted from the outset, making pretty much any matrix server (potentially with the exception of the matrix.org one, but it's ok to treat it as a demo anyway) a really good choice in that sense.
