It has not been formally audited by an independent third party that specializes in cryptography or cryptanalysis. This is an experimental cryptographic network library. Its security status hadn’t change for a while: I had high hopes on Tox, but now a days I no longer do. Which brings me to the fact matrix folks really don’t seem to care about interoperability though i hope i’m wrong about this. These network are doing mostly the same thing, and there’s no reason we can’t talk across networks. I believe interoperability is the only way to go. They all have strong arguments going for/against them. ActivityPub has a vibrant ecosystem but most clients are web-oriented (such a shame) and tailored to a specific use-case (peertube/mastodon/pixelfed).Jabber/XMPP has a much slower but dedicated non-profit ecosystem (let’s not even talk about the commercial branches) and lots of client/server options for all hardware/systems, but the clients don’t have good UX/polishing.Matrix really has a startup vibe and introduces a lot of complexity (reinventing quite a few wheels along the way), to the point the current situation is there’s only one bad client/server implementation (really resource-hungry).Matrix is one among others, but i’m not convinced a single solution is going to be the best: This is why I believe Matrix is the future.

It’s in fact a conscious strategy of startups in the field of “sharing economy” (remember couchsurfing?) Also, it can turn into a for-profit over the years. Please correct me if wrong.Ī non-profit doesn’t mean you need to do good. “Sealed sender” is now a thing (though i don’t know how strong a protection that is), but to my knowledge Signal continues to aggressively expose users’ phone numbers both to the server (in a hashed formed, for contact discovery) and to other users in public chatrooms. Encrypting metadata is most times impossible due to the server needing to know who to deliver messages to (at the very least). Signal encrypts everything and always has.

Signal messenger open source