Comment by ysnp

TL;DR: Have you already written about OR off the top of your head what are some of the hard problems in usable decentralised metadata resistant communication that your project and others tackle and intend to tackle in future?

Hi Sarah. My layperson understanding is that Cwtch is where you research and implement metadata-resistant infrastructure for communication tools and by extension where you find the acceptable trade-offs for open questions in usable privacy-enhancements.

My memory might deceive me, but I feel like there used to be an "open questions" section in the documentation that I can no longer find? Anyway, sorry for the rambling but the question I wanted to ask is: have you already written about OR off the top of your head what are some of the hard problems in usable decentralised metadata resistant communication that your project and others tackle and intend to tackle in future? Is there anywhere we can read about these sort of things to keep up to date on developments? Nowadays it is very easy for projects to claim exceptional privacy or absolute privacy partly because accurate awareness of limits, trade-offs and state-of-the-art is not common knowledge in some communities.

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I saw a minor accident while skimming the documentation. Briar's summary in https://docs.cwtch.im/security/intro#a-brief-history-of-meta... says, "while providing resistant to metadata surveillance". Looks like resistance would fit better there.