Comment on Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext

• Tramort@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed

  But you can’t have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.

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  • claudiop@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can’t encrypt anything without a key. This is the key. If it wasn’t in plaintext then it would be encrypted. Then you’d need a key for that. Where do you put it?

    Phone OSs have mechanisms to solve this. Desktop ones do not.

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