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The future of encrypted messaging is peer-to-peer
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It’s a serious question.
Key facts
- Keet doesn’t use a phone number or login, but a 24-word seed phrase, like a crypto wallet, making it more secure
- Developed by Holepunch and cofounded by Paolo Ardoino, the CEO of market-leading stablecoin Tether, and Mathias Buus, Keet is built to exchange data directly between participants using holepunching
- Keet is built using Pear Runtime, Holepunch’s privacy-focused peer-to-peer stack, designed to let anyone build seamless peer-to-peer applications
- In the UK, the government is demanding access to encrypted messages from the likes of Apple, WhatsApp, and Signal
Summary
Even if individual messages can’t be read, metadata can reveal vital information; the hacking group Salt Typhoon, for example, reportedly targeted millions of Americans’ data in part by harvesting locations and phone numbers. Keet takes a different approach. Keet doesn’t use a phone number or login, but a 24-word seed phrase, like a crypto wallet, making it more secure. Keet is built using Pear Runtime, Holepunch’s privacy-focused peer-to-peer stack, designed to let anyone build seamless peer-to-peer applications. As well as private messaging, Keet enables peer-to-peer and group video calls, as well as broadcast rooms; Holepunch has already declared its intention to introduce direct Bitcoin transfers to the app, as well as on-device AI features such as translation, soon.