THE LIVING ARCHIVE

From punched cards to autonomous collaborators: the ideas, people, languages and systems that taught machines to follow—and increasingly interpret—human intent.

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The Signal Protocol and the Mainstreaming of Modern End-to-End Encrypted Messaging

The protocol lineage behind Signal adapted forward secrecy and ratcheting to asynchronous mobile messaging, then spread those ideas into widely deployed communication systems where encryption could be on by default rather than a specialist mode.

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