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Ratcheting Trees and Building A Secure Messaging Platform

Ratchets only go forward, and never back.

We live in a flawed world of cybersecurity, and we often do not build systems that integrate all the most important features for privacy and trust. That, though, is changing, and when, in 2016, representatives from Cisco, Mozilla and Wire Swiss GmbH met at a meeting at IETF 96 in Berlin. The focus of the meeting was to use…