outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.world•The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverseEnglish
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1 year agoDoes Signal back up in plaintext in the cloud? (If so that doesn’t sound like E2E encryption… unless the ‘ends’ are uh… also constituted as the cloud itself which is… defeating the purpose).
Where do the pub/ private keys live, exactly, tbh. (Assuming it is asymmetric encryption that they use?)
Edit: ah, misread. I thought you said that you were not joining it due to it storing plain text in the cloud.
Can’t believe relevant xkcd hasn’t been posted.