As most people here might know, Session utilises a TOR-like onion routing system with some changes to route traffic. The username is the public key whilst the password is the private key.

Recently, a new project built on top of this seems to be in the works: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/freespeech/

I’d like to know the community’s opinion of session and how much would you trust its technology. Thanks!

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    I posted about preferring Session over SimpleX chat before and it seems like the big gripe is the crypto currency tie-in with Session

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      The crypto tie in is either the greatest idea in a while or is going to turn out to be a massive disaster.

      For now I’m hesitant to say either way. I though about running a node on Lokinet a while back ended up not doing it due to cost.

      To be honest with you I would be way more trusting of something that had servers that could be setup easily.

      There is also Jami but Jami seems to be riddled with issues and is lacking a security audit.

  • Desyn0xox@lemmy.ml
    4·
    10 months ago

    I think it’s an interesting project. However I am not a fan of their decision to omit forward secrecy, and have thus passed on using it. At least for now.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      10 months ago

      I didn’t know they did that. Unless it’s a technical limitation of Loki Net (which should be worked on if that’s the case), this is borderline unacceptable for a product made for privacy. Thanks for pointing it out

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    Session is secure and has been audited to verify that. However, I do have concerns over the size and obscurity of Lokinet. I don’t know if that will ever change or not.

  • Steve@slrpnk.net
    2·
    10 months ago

    I have Session. Given that it’s a fork of Signal and more anonymous I’m inclined to trust it from a privacy standpoint but can’t say I have the knowledge to really critique it’s tech. People aren’t really on there yet, at least nobody I know, so I don’t have much use for it yet but I would if it catches on a bit more at some point.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      11·
      10 months ago

      It is not a fork of signal. They use the Signal protocol for encryption and probably the way messages are composed, thats basically it.

      • Steve@slrpnk.net
        2·
        10 months ago

        Thanks. They’ve referred to themselves as a fork of Signal but maybe a bit of an oversimplification