schizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1436arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1432arrow-down1external-link‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWSwww.theverge.comschizoidman@lemmy.zip to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square106fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711 Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
minus-squarevacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 hours agoYe-es, but wouldn’t that be kinda slow?
minus-squareNatanael@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoCorrect, and slow is kinda the point (traffic metadata protection through timing obfuscation) There’s even a setting to set multiple Bote hops (inside I2P which already use multiple hop tunnels) with random delay per node (up to 24h)
Ye-es, but wouldn’t that be kinda slow?
Correct, and slow is kinda the point (traffic metadata protection through timing obfuscation)
There’s even a setting to set multiple Bote hops (inside I2P which already use multiple hop tunnels) with random delay per node (up to 24h)