JeffG on Nostr: MLS works great for 1-1 chat. There’s slightly more cryptographic overhead than a ...
MLS works great for 1-1 chat. There’s slightly more cryptographic overhead than a signal double ratchet but really it’s almost negligible. And MLS makes turning a 1-1 chat into a group trivial, which is something signal protocol can’t do efficiently without Signals servers in the middle.
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