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Ah, thanks for the response! So the number of messages you can send is precisely the number of keys that you generate at the start? How many is that? This also probably means you don't support long-running (think multi-year) conversations or the ability to add/remove people to/from the group, is that right?


> So the number of messages you can send is precisely the number of keys that you generate at the start? How many is that?

Bingo. The demo only generates 10K keys per participant, but 100k keys in storage takes less than 200ms to generate and only uses 6MB of storage space. This will be user configurable per chat. It's important to note, each message burns two keys. The first key encrypts the message, the second key encrypts the reference to that message for the rendezvous point.

> This also probably means you don't support long-running (think multi-year) conversations or the ability to add/remove people to/from the group, is that right?

Correct. There are plenty of other tools that do a beautiful job of handling that. This is designed specifically to provide short-lived chats with specific guarantees. The handshake happens just once at chat creation and all participants must be present.




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