A genuine discussion about the best FLOSS decentralized system to share poop emojis and videocall your dog.

  • comcreator@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Im not a fan of no identifiers. Sure simplex is secure with it but I would like to see something like simplex that uses 24 word seed phrases to generste millions of unique identifiers the user can easily backup and restore from a piece of paper and not from a digital backup file.

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      That wouldn’t work for anonymity because in order to be able to restore from a passphrase or seed, it must be kept somewhere remotely that people can access and activity can be tracked. That’s why there’s no anonymity with bitcoin.

      If all the identifiers are prerendered then they must be stored somewhere discoverable. What you are referencing is the best for security, SimpleX is the best for privacy.

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        1 year ago

        Monero is a privacy coin that allows for multiple subaddresses.

        The reason I prefer having identities (subaddresses) and to recover these addresses using a single 24 word seed phrase is for a simple one-time backup of your addresses. This will not backup anything else.

        Lets say you generate a subaddress for every single friend you have and then a few years later your phone dies and you did not make a backup in over a year. The seed phrase will be able to recover your subaddresses. You may not know who address is for which friend, but as long your friend knows they can contact you and you will still receive the message.

        If simplex implements multiple reuseable addresses that are generated by a seed phrase like a cryptocurrency, it will be a killer app. I am not against removing the single use one time codes to establish communications, that is a cool feature, just not possible to backup these communications on paper.

        Paper backups are considered the most secure since it is not backup using a computer.

        • Sha'ul@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          Have you contacted the developers to discuss it with them and ask to see if it may or may not work for optimally making contacts untraceable?

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              1 year ago

              Instead of simply criticizing SimpleX, talk with the developers directly about a passphrase recovery and see what they have to say about it for them to address your point directly insteadig of you saying it but never sharing your feedback with them.

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                1 year ago

                I am not complaining about SimpleX. Just expressing a feature I would like to see. I could try to reach out to the devs about it though.

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                  1 year ago

                  I encourage you to contact the developers with all of your opinions and they will give you a detailed technical response to everything that you expressed.