What Moxie Marlinspike thinks about cryptography

@moxie-marlinspike · 10 positions · 1 change of mind · On ppll ↗

Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal, the encrypted messenger whose protocol now protects messages in WhatsApp and Google Messages as well. He stepped down as Signal’s CEO in 2022 and writes occasionally at moxie.org.

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1. 13 Jan 2017

   Our readingHandling a change of keys is not a backdoor; it is how public-key cryptography works, and interception stays detectable by the sender.

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   Their wordsThe fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.

   ↗There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor'signal.org 1st of 2 in this piece

2. 8 months earlier

3. 10 May 2016

   Our readingSelf-hosted email will never be end-to-end encrypted, and federation is the reason.

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   Their wordsSo while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be.

   ↗Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org 2nd of 3 in this piece