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✅ End-to-End Encryption
🔒 Privacy-first
📌 Key difference: Decentralized vs Centralized
Quick idea: Signal secures message content. Mefesio removes the middleman entirely.
| Category |
Mefesio Decentralized
Peer-to-peer secure messaging
|
Signal Centralized
Server-relayed secure messaging
|
|---|---|---|
| System architecture | Decentralized / peer-to-peer network design | Centralized server infrastructure |
| Central server required | No No central server dependency | Yes Requires Signal servers for routing |
| Message delivery | Device-to-device routing (peer sync) | Messages routed through Signal servers |
| Message storage | User-controlled (no central storage) | Temporary server queue until delivery |
| End-to-end encryption | Yes E2EE | Yes E2EE |
| Server can read messages | No | No |
| Metadata approach | Designed to avoid metadata storage | Minimal metadata, but server-based operation |
| Identity requirement | No phone number Username-based identity | Phone required Phone number registration |
| SIM card dependency | No | Yes |
| Anonymous usage | Supported (username-based) | Limited (phone-number-linked) |
| Contact discovery | Direct add / QR / username search (no phonebook scan required) | Phone contact matching (hashed discovery) |
| Contact graph visibility | Hidden by design (no centralized relationship map) | Partially known through contact discovery + server relay model |
| Single point of failure | None | Exists (server dependency) |
| Shutdown resistance | Very high | Medium |
| Government blocking resistance | Very high (distributed) | Moderate (service endpoints) |
| Surveillance resistance | Maximum (no middleman) | High (content protected, servers still exist) |
| Tracking risk | Extremely low | Low |
| Spam exposure | Lower (no public phone discovery) | Possible via phone-number exposure |
| Family / children suitability | High (no phone required) | Limited (phone-based identity) |
| Network control | User-controlled presence and distributed connectivity | Service-controlled routing infrastructure |
| Infrastructure trust needed | None (no central relay) | Some (depends on server availability) |
| Best for | Privacy-critical users, families, organizations, closed communities | General secure messaging with a proven mainstream network |
