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Are dms e2e encrypted between recipients? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by DrivingForce@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
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Just curious if that is the case. I assume not as Lemmy does not advertise it's encryption at all.

Would this ever be planned for Lemmy?

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[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Implementing E2E isn't just about the encryption though, it's also about the key exchange/distribution/generation approach.

If you look at what Matrix does, so much of the complexity comes from how they authenticate all the different clients to manage E2E in a distributed way. For proper E2E you've got more than 2 ends (multiple clients) so you need to manage it for all.

[–] Bear_with_a_hammer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get what makes it hard to implement the same stuff using libraries provided, encryption should be optional for servers administrators to enable

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 1 points 1 year ago

Encryption is hard to get right. Which doesn't help when it's essentially useless unless you get it right

https://github.com/soatok/mastodon-e2ee-specification was a thing but it doesn't seem to be updated for months now.