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

[David Barrett]

Well, centralized routing and US government investment shouldn't change the
math of the security itself. So long as the design is secure, that
shouldn't really matter.

Regardless, can you see any flaw in my reasoning regarding the signal
protocol's advantage over simple public key encryption? Thank you!

David

On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 1:53 PM Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:02:24 -0800
> David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:
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> > Signal  protocol ...on the surface it seems _really_ complicated in
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> > protect against only a very narrow range of attacks.
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>         that is my impression as well. On the other hand signal has very
> serious propblems like requiring people to link their 'identity' to a
> retarphone and the fact that all messages are routed through signal-NSA
> servers. I.e. signal is fully centralized.
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>         you have to take into account that 'moxie' got 3 millions from the
> US govt. And a lot more from some other silicon valley oligarch.
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