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ATSMS — end-to-end encrypted group messaging
Encrypted group messaging on AT Protocol identities, with no server ordering anything.
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite
CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

Architecture
Overview of Ente's end-to-end encrypted architecture—learn how your data is encrypted on-device, securely shared, and safely stored using cryptography.

Exit Chat Control · Become Ungovernable
A practical field guide to escape Chat Control and reclaim your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, passwords, Linux, GrapheneOS, self-hosting. Free, open source, no tracking.

The rise (and future fall) of Discord
I want to talk about Discord. Not about all the issues like privacy, accessibility, performance. No, the good things. The part where it completely revolutionized the internet. And how it will destroy it all.
Encrypted Spaces — Research preview
An architecture for collaborative applications where data is encrypted and operations are cryptographically verifiable.

Germ Network
Share what you want to, when you need to, on Germ DM. The only messenger with multiple profiles, no phone numbers, and end-to-end encryption.

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.

Unlocking Quantum-Encrypted Group Chats for ATProto on XMTP
Developers building with ATProto (the protocol powering Bluesky) have been asking how they can use XMTP to power messaging between users in their apps. It’s possible today to add secure messaging to any Bluesky app, and to add Bluesky identity to any messenger built on XMTP. 0:00 /0:

Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt - Daniel's Leaflets
The first in a series of posts about major design decisions along the way to a permissioned data protocol for atproto.
proto instant messenger
AIM-inspired group chat on the AT Protocol. Real-time chat rooms, presence, away messages — a safe space for community.

Scott Lanoue - CoMail
Germany: New government plans 'right to encryption'. | Tuta
The coalition contract of the newly elected German government contains right to encryption.
The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond - Zicklag's Leaflets
The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.
Humans are social creatures. We crave bonding and social connections. In our digital world, our common social space is a campfire, which is the group chat.