Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
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Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
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Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#2Still asks for a phone number. Useless.
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#3Awesome. Is there a rough timeline for Signal on Android? What about the desktop version - will there still be one? (at least a Whatsapp Web/Pushbullet style "desktop app")
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#4One question I always have with secure systems distributed by app stores, even the open source ones, is how to you verify the source you're reading is the app you're using?
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#5Awesome. Is there a rough timeline for Signal on Android? What about the desktop version - will there still be one? (at least a Whatsapp Web/Pushbullet style "desktop app")
For desktop- https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#6Awesome. Is there a rough timeline for Signal on Android? What about the desktop version - will there still be one? (at least a Whatsapp Web/Pushbullet style "desktop app")
Signal for Android is already available, kinda...
It's split into TextSecure for the messaging portion and RedPhone for the call portion[0].
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#7I see it's open source, but is there a good third-party security evaluation of this anywhere?
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#8One question I always have with secure systems distributed by app stores, even the open source ones, is how to you verify the source you're reading is the app you're using?
Well, there are several ways to get read access to the iPhone's filesystem. You can grab the binary from the phone and verify that its the same as when you compile the app on your own machine.
No one's going to do that for most apps though.
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#9I see it's open source, but is there a good third-party security evaluation of this anywhere?
Ha — found one:
> You need to have Signal on your iPhone. Full stop.
Re: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support
#10One question I always have with secure systems distributed by app stores, even the open source ones, is how to you verify the source you're reading is the app you're using?
I guess there's no way but if it's open source, like this one, you can recompile it. The iOS version seems to use CocoaPods for the dependencies so it should be easy to compile the project.