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		zaik on Nov 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signal Introduces Stories We even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.

viccuad on Nov 8, 2022 [–]

Signal is just XMPP implementing the Axolotl ratchet.

XMPP is just SMTP and some protocol addons on top. SMTP is just FTP with RFC 469 and others. Etc.

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