Delta Chat, a popular messaging app with over 100,000 downloads on Google Play, has once again refused to cooperate with Russian authorities in providing access to user data and decryption keys. Holger Krekel, managing director of Merlinux GmbH, the company behind Delta Chat, responded to a request from Roskomnadzor, Russia’s Federal Service for Supervision of …

Delta Chat, a popular messaging app with over 100,000 downloads on Google Play, has once again refused to cooperate with Russian authorities in providing access to user data and decryption keys.

  • mystik@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Delta Chat just a clever chat interface over SMTP/IMAP, and thusly every user can use their own mail server for sending + receiving messages. Any encryption is between the end devices, and to cooperate, they’d have to produce a compromised build that leaks those keys.