fmaury/seirdy.one
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one synced 2024-11-23 12:52:10 +00:00
Code Issues Projects Releases Wiki Activity

New note: signal security

Browse source
This commit is contained in:
Rohan Kumar 2022-05-26 12:18:45 -07:00
parent 6b8dd5a657
commit 1e2a243952
No known key found for this signature in database
GPG key ID: 1E892DB2A5F84479
1 changed files with 12 additions and 0 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

12
content/notes/signal-security.md Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
---
title: "Signal security"
date: 2022-05-26T12:18:24-07:00
---
<aside role="note">
Reply to {{< mention-work itemprop="about" itemtype="SocialMediaPosting" reply=true >}}{{<cited-work name="europe wants to ban signal" url="https://disqordia.space/notice/AJqmgRLFlyVENIXcDA">}} by {{<indieweb-person name="chjara" url="https://tuxcrafting.online/" itemprop="author">}}
{{</mention-work>}}
</aside>
What do you mean by "false sense of security"? Signal's cryptography is pretty solid. It's one of the only messengers with such a lack of metadata leakage; if you combine it with Tor you can add enough noise to the network-layer metadata to be more private than almost any alternative.
Don't get me wrong, [I dislike it on the grounds of being a closed platform](https://seirdy.one/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users.html), but few alternatives exist that support both offline messaging and have such little metadata leakage. I'm willing to hear suggested alternatives that do not bake a "cryptographically-secure, decentralized pyramid scheme" (cryptocurrency) into the protocol. I'm not aware of any such alternative at the moment.