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TheSignalMessenger / TheSignal

NOT EVEN ALPHA: End-to-end encrypted server-free chat application with group support
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Identity #19

Open larsborn opened 9 years ago

larsborn commented 9 years ago

On first bootstrap every user gets a random id (a String for example). The user has to copy this information to all devices (together with the private key). We need to find a secure way to move the private key (without involving too many flash memory devices).

larsborn commented 9 years ago

the id could be some hash of the private key ... or the public key.

Mehrtuerer commented 9 years ago

Hashing the public key seems like a good idea. Should be as unique as the private key and can't possibly expose any more information about the private key.