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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] tatterdemalion 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This reminds me of the apparent gnome-keyring security hole. It's mentioned in the first section of the arch wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring

Any application can read keyring entries of the other apps. So it's pretty trivial to make a targeted attack on someone's account if you can get them to run an executable on their machine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. Discord token stealers have been around for ages but no one gives Discord flak about leaving that secret unencrypted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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