This is inherently good in itself. But, I ask myself if the oft- requested 'can we be people without phone # in signal' is now actually a deliverable, or if they only stated it in hypothesis, and still don't have that as a roadmap outcome?
I want to have two (or more) non-phone enabled devices able to be in signal. My tablet, and my computer. I realize there are adjunct methods, but depending on a physically present device to have one thing hooked up isn't actually what we want here, the phone is not a useful second factor, its a hack I believe they worked out to get beyond the 'must be a phone' state without having to re-engineer the back end.
So: do we now get phone-less signal identity? This feels like a precursor. Does that definitionally say phone-less identity will follow?
(again only from belief, I believe the secure enclave on the phone is bound into identity along with the IDD, so having a secure enclave backed in the cloud breaks one of the two dependencies out a bit)
I don't think it would make sense for them to now state that they're going to deliver that no matter what, because then
1. You're going to have people asking for timelines on that even more often than people are currently asking for non-phone number authentication, and if you indulge them, they're going to get angry with you for missing it.
2. Who knows what other problems might turn up when implementing it.
I'd expect them to announce it very close to it being actually possible. Until then, we'll probably only hear about individual problems they solved on the road to there.
I want to have two (or more) non-phone enabled devices able to be in signal. My tablet, and my computer. I realize there are adjunct methods, but depending on a physically present device to have one thing hooked up isn't actually what we want here, the phone is not a useful second factor, its a hack I believe they worked out to get beyond the 'must be a phone' state without having to re-engineer the back end.
So: do we now get phone-less signal identity? This feels like a precursor. Does that definitionally say phone-less identity will follow?
(again only from belief, I believe the secure enclave on the phone is bound into identity along with the IDD, so having a secure enclave backed in the cloud breaks one of the two dependencies out a bit)