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

submitted 5 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 19 points 5 months ago

I trust my computer and operating system. And there are several other keys and credentials stored on that laptop. I think it's better for me to have a file that I can backup and understand how the encryption works, than to do some trickery to hide it mostly from me and maybe a bit from malware, or tie it to some hardware TPM device or something. I'm always not sure if I should rely on those too much.