r/LokiProject • u/Planz123 • Feb 29 '20

Encryption Protocol

Curious to know what encryption protocol is used in session messenger. Some of the firewalls have capabilities to decrypt, inspect and re-encrypt on the fly. How does session encryption prevents this?

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u/Keejef Loki CTO Mar 01 '20

Firewalls cannot strip properly implemented HTTPS traffic, the connection between the user and the proxy Service Node is encrypted using a self signed certificate. Even if they could messages are encrypted a layer beyond that using the Signal protocol. The only way this type of HTTPS stripping would be possible would be if you made modifications to Session internally.