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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext
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this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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Don't the keys have to be in plaintext at some point so they can be used
Yeah but they don't have to be visible to every process the user runs, my Minecraft mods really don't need access to my encryption keys