An encrypted chatbot by Signal's founder
- Jan 16
- 1 min read
Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographic prodigy who wrote the code that underpins Signal and WhatsApp, has a new project—and it could be one of the most important things happening in AI right now.
The tool, named Confer, is an end-to-end encrypted AI assistant. It uses smart math to ensure that even though the compute-intensive process of running the AI still happens on a server in the cloud, the only person who can access the unscrambled details of that computation is you, the user.
New paradigm — That’s a clean break from the current way of doing things. When you interact with existing chatbots—unless you have a powerful computer running an open-source AI system—your data is not held privately. That’s especially true for the most useful models, which are closely guarded by AI companies, and far too big to run on a local machine anyway. Even though it may feel as intimate as a private chat, the reality is quite different.
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