Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.

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[–] iltg@sh.itjust.works 32 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

this is misleading and sensationalistic. if emissary implements e2ee, it's not "e2ee for the fediverse", it's " e2ee for emissary users". did mastodon talk about e2ee? did lemmy?

also the MLS-in-activitypub draft proposes for trusted key exchange either " trust the server" (lmao), use a centralized key authority (wow) or have users manually verify their keys out of band (so basically use matrix to assure your chat is encrypted). source: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-e2ee/architectural-variations.html#validating-end-to-end-encryption

fedi devs need to stop clickbaiting, and fedi users should learn a bit more about their protocol to avoid getting misled this way

[–] Abundance114@lemmy.world 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

I felt like a 90 year old grandma reading this.

[–] gajahmada@awful.systems 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You and me both.

But after pondering the orbs for a minute I think they're saying, that it's just Emissary trying to get E2EE working and not Fediverse as a whole.

And they follow with some objection with the proposed draft. I can only comment on the 3rd one, it basically mean you need other channel of communication to manually compare fingerprint (i.e via Matrix/Signal) to make sure your activities on Emissary is actually encrypted, maybe lol.

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Fediverse and Linux have to be the most unholy tech union in existence.