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Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims: this unofficial audit on the #Converso app looks like a book of horrors…! (poliverso.org)

submitted 2 years ago by piratepost@poliverso.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso

@privacy

But wait – it gets much, much worse

As I was finishing up the above post, I noticed something a little strange in the code – something I'd glossed over earlier. There are a ton of references to what looks to be functions related to Google's #Firestore database.

#Converso

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, I didn't intend to skip the Tox comments. I haven't used that in a whole, and was unaware of the CVEs. Those, and the fact there's no iOS app, are good reasons to not use it. I found its use of DHT limited its performance and often had device battery life impacts; it still had a better protocol than Signal. The CVEs and other issues are technical implementation problems that can be fixed, unlike Signal's design flaws.

Confide was just an example of a new class of fully anonymous, ephemeral chat clients, and maybe not the best choice. There are a half-dozen of these, all using similar mechanisms, some of which are OSS. I need to do a deeper survey of these, because they're an interesting new approach to full-security chat.

Anyway, just saying I hit "sendx prematurely.