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bryan_w on Aug 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal ...

Consider the following:

You encrypt and upload the media to the storage server.

You share the download URL and key with person #1

Now how long would it take to forward that same message with the url and key to person #2...n?

prmoustache on Aug 8, 2023 [–]

Are you saying they would be using symmetric encryption?

bryan_w on Aug 8, 2023 | [–]

Not necessarily, sender generates a private key for the piece of media, and shares the public key for that media item along with the download location to person 1&2 over their encrypted chat channels.

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