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Ben Pate 馃馃徎
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@benpate@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp last week

Soooo... #JustBetweenUs There's already some big stuff in the works for 2026:

The Social Web Foundation (@swf) has kicked off a project to bring real end-to-end encryption to the Fediverse. It's a big undertaking, with real financial backing from the @sovtechfund

Check out the announcement: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

And, I'm very excited that #Emissary is one of the projects selected to participate in the work alongside the @bonfire team.

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Hans Sigar
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@hans_sigar@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 3 hours ago

@benpate @swf @sovtechfund @bonfire Sounds promising. Good luck.

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@benpate@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp last week

What will this mean? We're working with extensions to ActivityPub to bring top-tier encryption into the Fediverse - the same industry standard that powers Android, Apple, Discord, and others.

We're aiming to release our first versions mid-year.

#Bonfire and #Emissary are great choices because each is a sort of "application builder" that can be molded to fit many different situations. It's going to be a massive undertaking, but I'm looking forward to the results

@swf @sovtechfund @bonfire

screenshot of a dialog titled "encrypted message". "Ben Pate" in the "Participants" field, message box is empty, and text above the "Send encrypted" button says "This will be encrypted before it leaves this device and will not be readable by anyone other than the recipients".
screenshot of a dialog titled "encrypted message". "Ben Pate" in the "Participants" field, message box is empty, and text above the "Send encrypted" button says "This will be encrypted before it leaves this device and will not be readable by anyone other than the recipients".
screenshot of a dialog titled "encrypted message". "Ben Pate" in the "Participants" field, message box is empty, and text above the "Send encrypted" button says "This will be encrypted before it leaves this device and will not be readable by anyone other than the recipients".
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@unattributed@gotosocial.social replied  路  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

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@swf @sovtechfund @bonfire

Curiosity question... Currently, if you are sending DM's between two users and a third is added part way through, the third party can see all the previous messages. That is a highly undesirable situation. If I understand correctly, this is a limitation / side effect of the ActivityPub specification.

Will this be resolved, or is it part of the spec, for this solution? IE, will there be a way to be certain that third parties cannot see previous portions of a Private DM thread? Or better, will it be default behavior to not expose the previous messages to third parties who are added to the thread later?

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