Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
stackdiary.com
Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising
  • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
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    4 months ago

    If any part of the data gets corrupted you lose the whole thing. Recovery tools can’t work with partially corrupted encrypted data.

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 months ago

      I don’t think that’s a big deal with Signal data. You can log back into your account, you’d just lose your messages. idk how most people use Signal but I have disappearing messages on for everything anyway, and if a message is that important to you then back it up.