Session Messenger Adds PFS, PQE, and Other Improvements

[nateb (Nathan Bartram)]

Session, a popular encrypted messenger app in the privacy community, today announced several major updates, including one correcting one of their most commonly criticized and serious drawbacks.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.privacyguides.org/news/2025/12/03/session-messenger-adds-pfs-pqe-and-other-improvements

[jonah (Jonah Aragon)]

Previous notable discussion:

Session Protocol V2: PFS, Post-Quantum and the Future of Private Messaging

Session is bringing back PFS, and adding in Post Quantum!! This is amazing and is moving Session into my personal regular recommendation list since it now solves the phone number issue that people complain about with Signal, while having similar security to Signal again.