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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Recant@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

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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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[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So effectively its not FOSS.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's absolutely FOSS. It is not, however federated. But that is not a requirement to be free and open source software

Think of it like this, Linux is free and open source software, even if I don't give you a shell on my computer.

You can use the code, however you want, in any project you want.