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End to end, not client to server.


User-to-user encryption is really not feasible/possible for public forums, social media, blogging, photo sharing, or web search. It's hard enough to do where it actually is feasible, such as message interchange - especially considering the fact that we now all have multiple auto-synched devices.


"User-to-user encryption is really not feasible/possible for...social media"

The research community has a thing or two to say about that:

https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity12/social-ne...


This is great stuff betterunix


Everything you just mentioned is more or less public by its very nature. Encryption wouldn't make any sense even were it feasible.




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