Re: Statement from Ricochet-Refresh Regarding The Recent Stories in German Media About Alleged Timing Attacks Affecting Our Users

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:50:20 -0000, Anonymous <[email protected]> wrote: 
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>The protocol is completely peer-to-peer and the client is open-source;   
>there is no account registration, no servers hosting your data, and no
>centralised organisations or infrastructure to attack. A person's
>account data is stored locally on their own computer and their   
>communications are only sent to the intended recipients. These    
>communications are private and secure by default because they are 
>end-to-end encrypted.  
   
as a casual user of remailers for posting to newsgroups, "privacy"
is a simple matter, because none of the plain text content posted    
to these unmoderated newsgroup forums requires decryption to read; 
but some users may have more serious concerns about prevention of
"unauthorized" access to unencrypted content regardless of format   
or function, in such cases "whole message encryption" is strongly 
recommended . . . see https://www.danner-net.de/omom/tutorwme.htm