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If you don't trust the other party you should not be sending him sensitive data. He has to be able to see it so of course he will be able to reveal it.


It is not that you don't trust your party, but that anyone with access to the servers or network between you can learn about who you are communicating with and when. Such metadata are often more useful to use against someone than the actual content.




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