irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
This is a significantly different use case than a secure chat application that mist in these comments are discussing. This system is more interesting for the obfuscation of the data, not the secure communication itself which is just x25519 public key encrypted messages. It’s the fact that intercepting the relevant messages from actual whistleblowers and informants is made very difficult. It’s not a chat application.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It technically is a chat app but it is specialized and built into the guardian app
irotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Not really. It’s not a real time message and there will be no status or read notification or any other realtime feedback that I would call a chat app. It can’t be realtime because the messages have to be split into chunks and those chunks are sent at regular intervals not all at once. The idea is that it there will be a constant flow of messages going to the news organization and only some of the will contain chunks of actual messages. And if the chunks are configured to be small and/or the frequency of messages is low, then if the message is large it could take a while for the full message to be transmitted. It’s closer to an encrypted email system than to a chat system TBH.