33
Signal Contingency Plan (spoiler: it's Delta Chat)
(signal-contingency-plan.info)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Indeed, I haven't followed up the history too closely, but it seems like they realized at some point that they couldn't implement privacy with the first option, which is why they switched to the second.
Regarding forward secrecy, seems like they just announced it last week at FOSDEM:
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/03/deltachat-is-actually-good-though/
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/
I have the opposite problem with knowledge: I followed them closely when they were purely email-based, and I never noticed all the changes they made. They've been tremendous!
Other messaging apps have changed their names, sometimes multiple times, over far less...
Interesting, that must quite the change!
And yeah, I was also there when Element/Matrix was still Riot.im...