Awesome Secure Messaging A curated collection of links for secure messaging. Part of the "Awesome X" series.

Table of Contents

• Fundamentals
• Messaging
• Anonymity
• Applications

Fundamentals

• SoK: Secure Messaging - evaluation of current secure messaging solutions based on security, usability and adoption

Messaging

• Double Ratchet - two-party protocol to exchange encrypted messages based on shared key

• X3DH - two-party asynchronous key agreement protocol

Anonymity

• The Differences Between Onion Routing and Mix Networks - brief comparison

• Anonymity Trilemma: Strong Anonymity, Low Bandwidth Overhead, Low Latency—Choose Two - on fundamental tradeoff for anonymous communication protocols

• Selected Papers in Anonymity - meta-list of selected papers in anonymity since 1977

Applications

• Briar - messaging app employing several censorship-resitance techniques, like direct device-to-device comms (bluetooth, wifi), Tor routing