What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

[Peter Fairbrother]

On 01/02/2021 20:56, Lee Clagett wrote:
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> On Sunday, January 31, 2021 7:28 PM, David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:


GCM?


SIDH?


I haven't read much of this thread.

The main reason for the use of a symmetric cipher is necessary resource 
conservation.

Peter Fairbrother