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

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Obviously there is the disk encryption passphrase at boot, adding another one for signal would in my case be redundant.

I also have full disk encryption, but I still have some databases on my disk encrypted because I decrypt my disk when I boot my computer. But yeah if you have Signal open (& its db decrypted) all the time it would probably be minimal. I don't have Signal open all the time though, only when I want to check messages or am actively using it

I don’t think it does much on the typical desktop, be it windows or linux, where there are so many ways to escalate or persist privilege for anyone that has user-level access.

The point would be encryption, even the root user wouldn't be able to read encrypted data if they don't have the passphrase

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

If you have root, intercepting all the user's keystrokes is trivial.