[messaging] Wickr Protocol Description

[Matt Corallo]

You may want to check out https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting too.

On November 27, 2015 2:29:21 PM EST, Tony Arcieri <bascule at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Matt Corallo
><moderncrypto at bluematt.me>
>wrote:
>
>> I can't claim to know the full history, but considering the
>ratcheting
>> stuff is critical in the serverless world that TextSecure started in,
>I'd
>> assume there is no non-Axolotl TextSecure.
>
>
>I ask specifically because the OWS blog post I linked makes no mention
>of
>Axolotl/ratcheting:
>
>https://whispersystems.org/blog/asynchronous-security/
>
>It does mention pre-keys though, and that was what I meant in my
>original
>comment. Perhaps they were working on Axolotl at the time and just
>didn't
>mention it in this post.
>
>I would definitely agree that Wickr's protocol is not as advanced as
>what's
>available in e.g. Signal today.
>
>If anyone from OWS knows the history here, I'd be curious.
>
>-- 
>Tony Arcieri
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