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The compromise of an account on Tchap, the messaging platform used by the French administration, reportedly exposed 73,000 users and 643,000 messages, according to figures cited in the press. Beyond this incident, a more fundamental question arises: what kind of architecture do we want for sensitive communications? France and the European Commission have chosen messaging solutions based on Matrix/Element, a technology that did not originate in the European Union: originally conceived at Amdocs, it is now mainly carried by Element, a UK-based company, around a federated architecture relying on servers. These solutions can be encrypted, administered and sovereign in terms of hosting and public control. But they remain structured around server-based infrastructure, with all the associated questions of persistence, administration, compromise and operational governance. Skred takes a different approach. With more than 21 million installed accounts, Skred is one of the leading European-origin private messengers designed around a peer-to-peer architecture. It enables end-to-end encrypted text, voice and video exchanges while limiting the centralisation of conversations and technical traces. Developed in France and open source, Skred recorded more than 11 million voice/video calls and 33 million messages sent in May 2026, with no advertising and no exploitation of personal data. Digital sovereignty is not only about where a service is hosted. It is also about how it is architected. Fewer identifiers. Less centralisation. Less retention. Fewer intermediaries. Therefore, less exposure. With Skred, confidentiality does not rely only on a promise. It starts with the design of the service itself.