For a long time, I've wanted a way to do realtime family/friend location sharing with e2ee.
So I finally built one!
Some details:
- The protocol uses a Signal-style double-ratchet (though with some differences) for PFS/PCS (but no PQ, a la SPQR)
- For simplicity and privacy, there's no persistent user identifier--just sessions. If you lose your phone, you and your friends have to re-pair.
- Message sharing uses ephemeral "mailbox tokens" to make social network/metadata analysis difficult.
Technical details here: https://where.af0.net/technical. Github here: https://github.com/danmarg/where.
Thrilled to get feedback!