The world’s first quantum-resistant messaging app, xx messenger, on Tuesday, launched xx messenger that allows users to communicate in real-time through hundreds of decentralised nodes operating worldwide, the company said in an emailed statement from Los Angeles.
Blockchain-based xx messenger protects message content and metadata with unprecedented quantum resistance, thus giving users unparalleled shield to privacy.
The app, available for download on IOS and Android, features group chat as well as photo and audio sharing, and designed for easy use and switching from legacy messaging apps.
“Unlike existing messaging apps, xx messenger uses quantum-resistant cryptography to protect message content from decoding and cMix software to obfuscate or shred metadata—information about who sends, when they send, where they send from, and who receive,” the company explained.
Randomly selected teams of xx nodes encrypt anonymity sets of 1,000 messages, which are then repeatedly shuffled and have also been encrypted using quantum-resistant cryptography.
The distinguishing feature of this app is that information that links senders and receivers is destroyed, preventing third parties from tracking intimate details about the patterns and structure of our lives.
The danger posed by centralized service providers is that they now surveil and profile the majority of digital users. Consequently, people’s personal information has been marketed, auctioned, and monetized in an ever-increasingly exploitative manner to advertisers and political groups, which use it to micro-target and manipulate consumers or voters.
On the contrary, “decentralized platforms offer a unique opportunity to weave the privacy principles of the early internet back into the fabric of the emerging web3 ecosystem,” said the company. xx messenger is dedicated to protecting and strengthening inalienable privacy rights at the dawn of web3, the decentralised online network that is based on blockchain, it added.
Another advantage of the xx messenger is that existing Message Encryption is not Quantum Resistant: There is general agreement that, within the relevant timeframe, quantum computers will be able to decode communications that have been encrypted using legacy crypto.
“At that point, messages sent on all other existing messengers, even those with “strong end-to-end encryption,” will be easily retroactively decoded and analyzed by artificial intelligence. Only what has been said using xx messenger will remain private,” the company said.
The statement also declares that only xx offers metadata shredding. According to it, all existing mainstream messengers can capture and potentially exploit metadata. Metadata shredding works by sending messages through randomly chosen xx network nodes around the world.
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