April 26, 2026
Messages are held in encrypted form and delivered once the recipient comes online.
When you send a message to someone who's offline, it's stored temporarily in encrypted form on EXTRA SAFE's infrastructure – unreadable without the recipient's private key. As soon as they reconnect, the message is delivered, and the stored copy is cleared.
Auto-delete timers start when the message is viewed, not when it's delivered. A message waiting for an offline recipient doesn't start its countdown until they actually open and see it.
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