• aport@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    I’m OOTL, why do people want an alternative to Signal? It thought that was the good app

    • Confetti Camouflage@pawb.social
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      7 minutes ago

      I don’t know about other people, but the only thing I don’t like about Signal is that it is centralized. It seems to be the only option to actually get everything right for security though from what I hear.

  • vollkorntomate@infosec.pub
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    2 hours ago

    […] it uses the X25519 public key… as a symmetric key, for AES-GCM.
    […] anyone that knows the public key can decrypt it.

    Ouch.