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kseistrup on Jan 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: WhatsApp whitepaper removed sentence about never h...

In spite of what their website says, I'm pretty sure they removed multi-device support a good while ago, which makes it less useful.

I just tried out version 1.4.4 for desktop, and device linking is nowhere to be found anymore.

adsharma on Jan 9, 2021 | [–]

I like their idea though. Encryption without a server.

I independently implemented similar ideas over the holidays and then discovered that there were people with similar ideas.

Code:

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/blob/main/zre_raft/zre_...

Usage:

https://github.com/adsharma/zre_raft/commit/b6f897539d1bef10...

kseistrup on Jan 8, 2021 | [–]

Issue from April 2020 says “We only allow one linked device currently”:

⌘ https://github.com/loki-project/session-desktop/issues/1104

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