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Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
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Multiple devices - one account #406

Open ole-tange opened 8 years ago

ole-tange commented 8 years ago

Alice has multiple devices (e.g. a laptop at work and one at home). She wants messages to be delivered to all her devices.

Unfortunately her devices are never turned on at the same time.

By using store-and-forward (https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/405) this can still be accomplished.

Alice creates 3 accounts Avirtual, Awork and Ahome. Avirtual is given as the contact address, but is never online. Avirtual has 2 relays Ahome and Awork (+ possibly additional relays).

Because Alice has marked Awork and Ahome as syncronizing addresses, a message received at Ahome will automatically be copied to Awork (and vice versa) unless it has already been received. This may be done through relays.

Depends on: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/405

rburchell commented 8 years ago

See also #99.