A company called Germ is aiming to bring end-to-end encrypted messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol, a feature that the social network doesn’t currently have.
The tool’s security is yet to be independently audited, but the company says it plans to seek that out soon. Mark Xue, a former privacy engineer at Apple and CTO of Germ, told 404 Media “We’ve been working for about two years on Germ, and on this integration for 6 months or so.”
Essentially, Germ is its own app which is integrating with the AT Protocol that powers Bluesky, according to an announcement post the company shared with 404 Media before it went live on Monday. It describes itself as the “first secure messaging service on the ATProtocol!”
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