Glossary
The words these docs use.
- End-to-end encryption
- Encryption where only the people in a conversation hold the keys. See encryption.
- Handle
- An optional name people can look you up by, exactly. See handles.
- Invite code
- A single-use code that creates one account. See invite codes.
- Message franking
- A commitment each message carries to its own content, so it can be checked as genuine. See reporting.
- Mailbox
- Where a sealed message waits on the network. It belongs to a conversation, not a person.
- MLS
- Messaging Layer Security (RFC 9420), the open standard for end-to-end encrypted group messaging.
- Node
- A server in Pigeon's network that stores and forwards sealed envelopes. See the network.
- Sealed envelope
- The outer wrapping on every message, which hides its group, sender and recipient from the network.
- Seed phrase
- The 24 words that are your account, shown once. See seed phrase.
- Trusted circle
- People you choose to be told if your account changes hands. See trusted circle.
- Linked device
- Another computer on your account, a full member of your chats. See devices.