Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
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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on desktop devices
Kinda should have been in the headline
It is a super important detail, but it's still unforgivable for an app that expects privacy to be part of its brand identity.
unforgivable
yeah absolutely agreed
This is a big difference between privacy and security.
Agreed
But you can't have privacy without security, and any privacy brand must have security in their bones.
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.