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Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web

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Re: Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web

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To be honest, I don't get how I would use it. I understand the text I send will be encrypted, but what does using it actually look like.

Thanks, perhaps while its hard to get the public recognition behind such tool when starting out, I should make more real demos of how it works with messengers and create Demo bot + verifier account across messengers where the user can try it out immediately after downloading :)

Yes, or you can record gifs and feature them prominently on the front page of your GitHub, for example?

Re: Show HN: Ekko – post-quantum E2EE layer for Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram Web

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This reminds me of the good old days before signal, back when it was still called SmsSecure / TextSecure / Silence. This was pretty much the same concept but on top of SMS. I loved it

Thanks :) Have not witnessed those good old days myself but have to check out! I assume the encryption flow has to be flawless UX/UI to win the consumers for such a tool

It was pretty much a simple "toggle encryption" button, when you pressed it and your friend also had Silence it would ask them if they want to start encryption, you pressed yes and you were encrypted. The only thing was that when you changed phone / reinstalled you would receive the encrypted message and you had to tell your friend to stop and restart the encryption
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