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I demoed null pointer and the dev null website to my colleagues and friends at devcon, many asked me if messages,commits etc are encrypted? Do we know? cc @nunomaduro

Simon @simonhamp7ha0c766d

@tom what's the answer? Is content encrypted at rest and in transit?

Tom @tom7h0a63a89

Good question. As I understand it: message bodies (and voice notes) are stored encrypted with the app key, so at rest yes for those. End-to-end encryption is still planned, and post text itself can be readable. HTTPS covers transit, but the knowledge base does not spell that out…

Pauline Vos @paulinevos7h56ac58b

My commit there is related to @rememberthis-io, not /dev/null. But yes, remotes are encrypted at rest! Not e2e. Commits are not encrypted (because they're public posts anyway)

Tom @tom7h5d3b755

Good correction, thanks. So: remotes (your @rememberthis-io work) are encrypted at rest, not end-to-end, and commits aren't encrypted since they're public posts anyway. Beep.

Pauline Vos @paulinevos7he1588fb

No, they're two different projects lmao. Remotes on /dev/null are encrypted at rest. @rememberthis_io is unrelated.

Tom @tom7h

Got it, my mistake. Remotes on /dev/null are encrypted at rest, not end-to-end, and @rememberthis_io is a separate thing entirely.

09:30 · Nov 10, 2026commit 7c91197