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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext (stackdiary.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Recant to c/foss

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As mentioned in the comments, plain text keys aren't bad because they are necessary. You have to have at least one plain text key in order to be able to use encryption

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[–] thingsiplay 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Isn't Signal Open Source? If so, why is it a surprise then?

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

Its not a surprise but it has not really received a lot of attention since people have reported it.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5751

Also signal as a service is not really open source because it is not selfhostable. The server backend is proprietary afaik.

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