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Don't roll your own crypto. Leverage the contributions of others to open source protocols and implementations. This is one of the main reasons why @White Noise and Marmot uses MLS. A small army of giga brains has been working on this protocol for close to a decade, and the continued progress is amazing. Here are some recent MLS related docs that are going to be discussed at the next IETF meeting. These are all super hard problems, and we get them solved for free. - Partial MLS (scales groups into the millions of devices, but removes authentication by non-admins)

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Partial MLS

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment for large groups with up to thousands of client...

- Leaf Operation Intents (a way for any member to signal that they want to leave a group without having up-to-date state:)

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Leaf Operation Intents

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol defined in [RFC9420] is an asynchronous secure group messaging protocol, which allows group members to ...

- Virtual Clients (a way for several clients to operate as a single leaf node in the tree - could offer big efficiency & privacy benefits with multi-device/multi-client):

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MLS Virtual Clients

This document describes a method that allows multiple MLS clients to emulate a virtual MLS client. A virtual client allows multiple emulator client...

- Single Signature KeyPackages (makes KPs a bit more efficient):

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Single Signature KeyPackages

Single Signature KeyPackages improve the overhead of creating, transmitting and verifying MLS KeyPackages by removing one signature.

- Amortized PQ combiner (a way to begin introducing post-quantum protections without the huge overhead of real PQ):

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Amortized PQ MLS Combiner

This document describes a protocol for combining a traditional MLS session with a post-quantum (PQ) MLS session to achieve flexible and efficient a...

- Targeted messages (Sending messages to a subset of a group but not the whole group):

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MLS Targeted Messages

MLS targeted messages allow sending encrypted messages to a specific member of an MLS group.

- PQ Ciphersuites (fully PQ protected ciphersuites, with very large signatures and keys):

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ML-KEM and Hybrid Cipher Suites for Messaging Layer Security

This document registers new cipher suites for Messaging Layer Security (MLS) based on "post-quantum" algorithms, which are intended to be resilient...

- DMLS (Distributed MLS - a sort of convoluted/complex way of allowing multiple different commits for a given epoch - probably not that useful but would solve for someone being offline, making changes to a group locally, then having to sync up later with the rest of the group):

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Distributed MLS

The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol enables a group of participants to negotiate a common cryptographic state for messaging, providing Forw...

Any rust wizards looking for work?

3.5 mil sats don't even get you an ounce of gold anymore...

Someone please build a cashu wallet that runs on the background on android and exposes NWC, thanks.

@Plebs vs. Zombies is a cool app to clean up your follow list. Would be good if the scouts mode shows all the zombie npubs. Also it could rank the zombies by @Vertex score so to get rid of spam accounts too.

PopOS Beta 24.0.4 is quite good already and the new COSMIC UI is pretty, great for a first time Linux experience. system76.com/pop/pop-beta

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