Matthew Green on Nostr: In 2019 Apple quietly upgraded the protocol to get rid of some obsolete cryptography, ...
In 2019 Apple quietly upgraded the protocol to get rid of some obsolete cryptography, but it still wasn’t as advanced as the Signal Protocol used by WhatsApp and Signal.
A big part of the reason: iMessage lacked post-compromise security.
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