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Salon I: End-to-End Encryption in ActivityPub - 2024 Protocol Symposium

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Evan and Tom present their research on implementing end-to-end encryption within ActivityPub, the W3C-standardized federated social network protocol. They outline their methodology covering user stories, design research, potential architectures, UI guidelines for federated contexts, and next steps for adding cryptographic privacy to ActivityPub's push-based, JSON-based message infrastructure.

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