• ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today
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    No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.

    Also has an independent security audit.

    To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.

    https://simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works

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      So then how do you pair with a connection? Do you send them (out of band like through email or something) some kind of key that they then accept? That sounds super annoying.