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Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
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Implement a way to reset/change ricochet identifier #304

Open jauderho opened 9 years ago

jauderho commented 9 years ago

It would be nice to have the ability to periodically "burn" an identity like http://www.burnerapp.com

s-rah commented 9 years ago

+1. This is related to #235 and agreed, I think there are lots of cool things that can be done in the UX to improve identity management - many of them can be done manually already so it shouldn't take a lot of effort.

increasingawareness commented 8 years ago

A possible solution is described in #381 where you ./ricochet nameofnewid. For instance, I generated a new ID that I will use publicly, by ./ricochet public. I have another identity I use for communicating with my family. I suppose that it wouldn't be that difficult to create a UI button that generates a folder for a new identity, and then have a list of the possible identities at startup. The only thing I haven't looked into is whether the identities are in fact completely separate (meaning no leaks from the ricochet executable), so more research is needed.