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Barking Up the Ratchet Tree – MLS Is Neither Royal nor Nude
One of the first rules you learn about technical writing is, “Know your audience.” But often, this sort of advice is given without sufficient weight or practical examples. Instead, you&…
In the past few decades, an industry of popular science publications sought to bridge the gap between the cool things scientists were doing and us mere mortals who completely lack the intuition necessary to wrap our heads around the intricacies and nuances of what the eggheads figured out in their pursuit of higher-quality ignorance. MLS is a building block; a well-designed tool whose designers made specific trade-offs in order to satisfy their understanding of the threat model for group private messaging. MLS: The Naked King of End-to-End Encryption With sufficient early adopters (which together already add up to at least hundreds of millions of users), it’s a proven technology that scales and offers multiple reference implementations for future programmers.
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