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Community of SimpleX Chat users – managed by the team.

SimpleX Chat is the first chat platform that is 100% private by design – it has no user identifiers of any kind and no access to your connections graph – it's a more private design than any alternative we know of.

Please ask any questions and make feature suggestions. Your ideas and criticism are very welcome!

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

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any ideas on how to securely send my SimpleX address to a recipient? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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like, if I send the QR code to someone I want to talk to via email, anyone intercepting this message will at the very least know my SimpleX address; same thing if I send it via messenger.

edit: let's assume we don't have an established and trusted channel. furthermore, they're not expecting this info.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Without face-to-face communication, you cannot guarantee you haven't been man in the middle MITM.

One of the benefits of public key cryptography, is everybody can publish their public key, and then you can have a reasonable assurance that you're talking to the appropriate person, cuz you can see the key, they can see the key, so in theory you have verified the key.

With simple x, if one of you publishes a known non-incognito, static receive address. IE on your public website, or in your letterhead, or something, then the other side knows they're talking directly to you. You don't know you're talking directly to them. Or at least to the published address

If you want to talk to somebody, in a deniable way, then you probably should not be sending them direct mail. Meet them in person, exchange addresses that way, use briar, something.