That’s fair, and honestly it’s the right instinct - I wouldn’t tell anyone to bet their safety on something unreviewed either, including mine. I’m one guy who got obsessed, not a cryptographer, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
Genuine question since you clearly know the space: for a small independent project, what’s the realistic path to that kind of review? Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?
And thanks for the XMPP/OMEMO pointer - I’ll go read up on how they handle the no-phone-number side, since that’s the part I cared most about.
That’s fair, and honestly it’s the right instinct - I wouldn’t tell anyone to bet their safety on something unreviewed either, including mine. I’m one guy who got obsessed, not a cryptographer, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
Genuine question since you clearly know the space: for a small independent project, what’s the realistic path to that kind of review? Is a professional audit the only thing that counts, or does open-sourcing the code so people can poke at it move the needle at all on its own?
And thanks for the XMPP/OMEMO pointer - I’ll go read up on how they handle the no-phone-number side, since that’s the part I cared most about.