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Would be nice if E2E stuff was more like OTR, then there would be zero re-encryption needed.


Then you would be stuck with it only covering text message bodies (or binary blobs), rather than arbitrary structured content (voip signalling, location share data, reactions, etc). You’d also have to figure out how to map the key management and crypto identity over somehow, which would then be equivalent to forcing (say) WhatsApp to throw away their current key management in favour of an OTR like thing. At which point you might as well go the whole hog and just speak something like Matrix natively.


Does the DMA cover more than text message bodies? Do you really have to protect something like presence end to end? Would arbitrary translation of every possible type of information be possible?




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