• ExFed@programming.dev
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    14 hours ago

    Yes, that’s two applications instead of one…

    That’s precisely how the OSI model works. Every layer is written/read by a different process, and exactly why you can’t ban encryption. So long as a communications channel can accept arbitrary language, that channel can accept anything expressible in that language, including coded messages.

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      12 hours ago

      Exactly, you can’t ban encryption in messaging applications in the same way that you can’t ban it on a MAC frame.