Just so you know, “keys” are used for a number of purposes in Signal (and for software applications in general) and not all of those purposes involve encryption. Many keys are used for verification/authentication.
And it’s I who should take a course in encryption and cybersecurity.
ROFL
Good to see you have your study material at hand though, and yes cryptography is complicated but you’ll get the hang of it eventually.
Russia is trying to make business with poorer countries to prop up the falling ruble, etc. I don’t think the dollar or the euro has anything to be afraid of in the near future.
Yeah the BRICS will make the dollar obsolete.
/s (if that wasn’t super obvious)
Nice try FBI.
Well, if my pin is four numbers, that’ll make it so hard to crack. /s
If you can’t show hard evidence that everything is offline locally, no keys stored in the cloud, then it’s just not secure.
BTW, “keys” when talking about encryption is the keys used to encrypt and decrypt, it wouldn’t be very interesting to encrypt them, because now you have another set of keys you have to deal with.
I have read that it is self hostable (but I haven’t digged into it) but as it’s not a federating service so not better than other alternative out there.
Also read that the keys are stored locally but also somehow stored in the cloud (??), which makes it all completely worthless if it is true.
That said, the three letter agencies can probably get in any android/apple phones if they want to, like I’m not forgetting the oh so convenient “bug” heartbleed…
As you say yourself (cryptocraphic nerd here):
Signal’s E2EE protocol means that, most likely, message content between persons is secure.
So a shame there are no free servers, are the server soft not open source, only the signal app itself?
Edgy