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skrebbel on June 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: European Parliament Draft to Enforce End-To-End En...

In all honesty if you keep the key on a server you might as well not encrypt the messages to begin with (except in transmission ofc, but hey, https).

Storing the key right next to the encrypted messages makes it no more secure than ROT13'ing the messages.

c22 on June 18, 2017 [–]

The key doesn't have to be shared with the server.

skrebbel on June 18, 2017 | [–]

Ahyes, good point.

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