Comment by Retr0id

Comment by Retr0id 17 hours ago

3 replies

Video decryption+decoding is a well-defined enough problem that you can ship silicon that does it. You can't do the same thing for the UI of a social media app.

You could put the entire app within TrustZone, but then you're not trusting the app vendor any less than you were before.

Retr0id 17 hours ago

Although now I think about it more, you could have APIs for "decrypt this [text/image] with key $id, and render it as a secure overlay at coordinates ($x, $y)"

  • londons_explore 16 hours ago

    Exactly. Thats how DRM video works, and I don't see why you couldn't do the same for text.

    • Retr0id 16 hours ago

      Actual DRM uses symmetric keys though, figuring out how to do the crypto in an E2EE-comaptible way would be challenging.