Integrating Causality in Messaging Channels

ePrint Report: Integrating Causality in Messaging Channels

Shan Chen, Marc Fischlin

Causal reasoning plays an important role in the comprehension of communication, but it has been elusive so far how causality should be properly preserved by instant messaging services. To the best of our knowledge, causality preservation is not even treated as a desired security property by most (if not all) existing secure messaging protocols like Signal. This is probably due to the intuition that causality seems already preserved when …

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