Building secure messaging is hard: A nuanced take on the Bitchat security debate
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Summary
A nuanced take on Bitchat: the MitM and weak forward-secrecy flaws researchers found are real and serious, but both the praise and the criticism surrounding the Bluetooth E2EE app miss important nuance.
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