Could the designers indicate what would be the class of entities that this is supposed to protect my chats from ? the guy on the same wifi ? isp ? routers on the way ? govt entities ?
In a number of threads it was claimed that this is better than nothing or better than https, could you (all) elaborate on why that would be so. If I am just locking one door of my car leaving the rest open, I sure would like to know and at the moment this is what it sounds like but I am quite the ignoramus so please correct my misapprehensions.
Sure, we can clarify that on the site. (Thanks for the feedback! It's become pretty clear that our supporting content/documentation needs a lot of work.)
The intent isn't to protect from certain classes of entities, so much as to absolutely protect with a certain degree of confidence. That is to say, Cyph is a convenient tool that probably keeps your secrets from, say, China; but if you're in a life and death situation you should consider carefully whether you have better options.
That being said, now that I think about it, there isn't an obviously better alternative in such a circumstance that I could recommend. Pidgin OTR is probably what I would have chosen a few years ago, and for now it's maybe still what I'd pick, but based on what I've been seeing in the OTR mailing lists and the Vice article I linked in another comment, it's really not a great option. TextSecure might be a good alternative if using it on a phone isn't too big a problem. There's always tried and true PGP, though where applicable the OTR protocol has much more interesting security properties IMO.
tl;dr: There's really no silver bullet, but Cyph has as good a chance as just about any alternative of protecting your secrets. I wouldn't stake my life on it quite yet, but I wouldn't stake my life on any existing alternative either. If things go as planned and we execute well on the next steps, it shouldn't be too long before I'd consider Cyph strictly better than any alternative.
In a number of threads it was claimed that this is better than nothing or better than https, could you (all) elaborate on why that would be so. If I am just locking one door of my car leaving the rest open, I sure would like to know and at the moment this is what it sounds like but I am quite the ignoramus so please correct my misapprehensions.
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@buu700 Thanks for replying.