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

submitted 3 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 points 3 months ago

You. Don't. Store. Secrets. In. Plaintext.

SSH stores the secret keys in plaintext too. In a home dir accessible only by the owning user.

I won't speak about Windows but on Linux and other Unix systems the presumption is that if your home dir is compromised you're fucked anyway. Effort should be spent on actually protecting access to the home personal files not on security theater.