As most people here might know, Session utilises a TOR-like onion routing system with some changes to route traffic. The username is the public key whilst the password is the private key.

Recently, a new project built on top of this seems to be in the works: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/freespeech/

I’d like to know the community’s opinion of session and how much would you trust its technology. Thanks!

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The encryption is a fundamental problem because they removed Signal’s forward secrecy and replaced it all with a single leakable key you share among all your devices.

According to Season devs, Session does not use LokiNet but some other thing. It’s been that way since way back…

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