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

[Karl]

On 1/25/21, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:06:51 -0500
> Karl <gmkarl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > On 1/24/21, David Barrett <dbarrett at expensify.com> wrote:
>> >> Hi all, I'm the CEO a company called Expensify, developing a new open
>> >> source chat application at https://Expensify.cash.  I was pretty
>> >> prolific on the p2p-hackers mailing list back in the day, but this is
>> >> my
>> >> first post to Cypherpunk, so... hi!
>> >
>> > Punk's comment on javascript has merit.  It's hard to secure
>> > javascript.  It's gotten easier, but it's still designed for the web,
>> > where everything you do is handed to you by a stranger.

Whoops!  I visited the website and it has nothing to do with secure
communications, at all!  Totally appropriate use of javascript.

>       What I think is important to understand is that signal is a centralized

I usually try to say "centralised", I'm kinda weird.

Maybe we should leave these kinds of threads unreplied to longer or something.