[messaging] Group messaging consistency under resource constraints

Trevor Perrin trevp at trevp.net
Mon Oct 20 16:16:07 PDT 2014


On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM, David Leon Gil <coruus at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a note re Pond: It doesn't do a good job concealing social-network
> information. In particular, the single-identity-per-client constraint
> means that any two colluding participants can determine that they're
> talking to the same person.

It's a design decision we've discussed, e.g.

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000215.html

Having a "linkable pseudonym" means two participants can corroborate a
third party's fingerprint, which has advantages.

Anyways, this is off-topic for the thread.

Trevor


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