Free and Open Source Software

18015 readers

6 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Gaywallet@beehaw.org

alyaza@beehaw.org

107

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

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Recant@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 months ago

Discord aren't marketing themselves on secure or encrypted messaging. Signal is.

permalink
fedilink
source
parent