Sealed Sender: Hiding Who Talks to Whom
A technical deep-dive on RVNT's sealed sender: how encrypting the sender certificate to the recipient hides the from-to routing pair, and how forgery, replay, and abuse are handled.
A technical deep-dive on RVNT's sealed sender: how encrypting the sender certificate to the recipient hides the from-to routing pair, and how forgery, replay, and abuse are handled.
"It's just metadata" is a dangerous phrase. Who you talk to, when, and how often can reveal more than what you said — and RVNT is built to minimize it.
Signal is the gold standard for encrypted messaging. Here is where RVNT agrees, where it diverges, and the honest tradeoffs of each — no strawmen.
How to contact a journalist securely: SecureDrop, Signal usernames, the metadata problem, OPSEC, and the honest limits no encryption tool can fix.
Signal vs Telegram vs WhatsApp on real privacy: who encrypts by default, who harvests metadata, and why Telegram is the weakest of the three.
Citizen Lab's April 2026 'Bad Connection' report documents surveillance actors geolocating people through SS7 and Diameter signaling — below the apps, below the encryption. A breakdown of how it works and why no messenger can fix it alone.
What is end-to-end encryption? A plain-English guide to how E2EE works, how it differs from TLS, who can and can't read your messages, and what it does not protect.