Comment by roamingnomadic
7 years ago
Signal uses the same public key/private key cryptography. Hopefully that makes more sense?
In any case, after reading the google doc more carefully, I see the idea isn't to be against the whole pub/private key authentication its just a proposal of how pgp works.
>age is not unauthenticated encryption, so the criticism does not apply.
yeah, I see. its pretty good actually.
Signal does not use "the same public key/private key cryptography", nor does it use a CA, or anything like a CA.
Double ratchet using Curve25519 and Ed25519 signatures is not at all the same asymmetric cryptography as PGP.