> instead of just retrieving the messages from the cache on a confiscated phone
why wouldn't encryption be a part of recipe here rendering government acquisition of such a cache moot?
why wouldn't encryption be a part of recipe here rendering government acquisition of such a cache moot?
If you want to protect older messages you can have the user enter a passphrase when they are in a physically safe situation. But that is only really practical for media like email. Good for organizing the protest but perhaps not so great at the protest.
>At its core, BitChat leverages the Noise Protocol Framework (specifically, the XX pattern) to establish mutually authenticated, end-to-end encrypted sessions between peers.