Hiya,

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 13:00, Paul Schaub <vanitasvi...@fsfe.org> wrote:

> Hey everyone!
>
> It would be nice to have a way for clients to store end-to-end encrypted
> information on the server (imagine Private XML Storage or private PubSub
> nodes, but encrypted).
>
> As I heard that there are efforts of specifying ways to store signed
> data, I thought storage of encrypted data would come close enough to
> that to be discussed in the same breath.
>
>
I believe that's part of the same project, in fact. I just happened to be
more interested in signed data rather than encrypted, but it is, as you
say, all much the same principles.

The difficulty is always in the key distribution and authentication.


> Since both signed and encrypted data would require some sort of
> asymmetric client/account key pair, we could define that as well? It
> would open the door to many very interesting use cases, one of them
> being a single identity key for end-to-end encryption.
>
> What do you think?
> Paul
>
>
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