Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps | WIRED
The new open-source project could serve as the basis for a future of apps with features as complex as Slack, Discord, or Google Docs—but with added protection against surveillance.
Save this story Save this story End-to-end encryption, in which data is encoded so that only users on either “end” of a conversation can decrypt their communications—and not the server that relays that information or any other interloper—has become the standard for modern privacy on the internet. But its very name suggests a kind of simple pipe with two openings. The metaphor, and often the encryption technology that has enabled that model, doesn't fit neatly onto the world of Slack , Discord , Google Docs , and the other multiuser, complex, collaborative software where people now live and wor
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