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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app

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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext on desktop app

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising

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Idea of using a web browser for a platform was dumb enough and the reason why none of the keys were stored in appropriate services.

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