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…up some extra groceries) and then I miss it. There is a longer discussion with various people here: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/14166

comment by microtonal · 2026-10-12 · in Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

Show us the backdoor https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android With Telegram it is very easy: NOTHING is end-to-end encrypted by defaults, and group / desktop chats can't be end-to-end encrypted. So operating a honeypot server that gets…

comment by maqp · 2026-10-10 · in Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen

Add ability to pay for a signal login. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/7da3357b5...

comment by opengrass · 2026-09-14 · in Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

…They make money from donations and paid backups and they might make money from paid accounts. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/7da3357b5... [2] https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-us...

comment by Cider9986 · 2026-09-12 · in How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

…fan out sender-side, are encrypted and sent separately to each device of the recipient [1]. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/9b2c2ed66d8...

comment by jessa0 · 2026-08-09 · in Signal can easily work across multiple Android devices and iPhones now

…yet, I'm using Molly, an independent Android fork of Signal. Signal itself is released on AGPL-3.0: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android so this is probably why Molly forked. So not sure what are you talking about.

comment by subscribed · 2026-05-17 · in Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers

…Signal does you can be sure the app you've downloaded matches the source code that's been audited: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by jgtor · 2026-05-09 · in Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

Or why not include the source of your claim up front? From GitHub comments: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247 Greyson: > Hi there, sorry, this issue was fixed in 5.17 (which hit 100% production on 7/21) They had a…

comment by alance · 2026-04-10 · in Session is shutting down in 90 days

…client that does the E2EE, reproducible builds are frequently broken for the signal client, e.g.: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11352 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13565 and many more. Just search…

comment by holowoodman · 2026-01-04 · in The PGP problem (2019)

…See spam-filter (a git submodule) in https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server but absent from https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android or https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS > The Signal people are absolutely not trustworthy for…

comment by some_furry · 2026-01-04 · in The PGP problem (2019)

You'll need to trawl through the actual commits it appears: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commits/main/

comment by nebulous1 · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…/community.signalusers.org/t/how-to-get-signal-apks-o... [3] https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/ [4] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9729 [5] https://community.signalusers.org/t/use-gcm-fcm-alternatives...

comment by RealCodingOtaku · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…it is all open source https://github.com/signalapp https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/releases https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Des…

comment by godelski · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…fact, that's not a build by the Guardian Project, but (when I tried) a redistribution of Signal's https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/releases builds. I'm not sure why they're doing it; anyhow, I'd at least avoid doing the initial…

comment by g-b-r · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App

…be much much smaller. As someone with a 50 GB backup file, this was very much a goal for me :) [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/app/sr...

comment by greysonp · 2025-09-09 · in Signal Secure Backups

There are a lot of GitHub issues about this (mine being similar to the last one) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10135 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13098 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/i…

comment by kayson · 2025-09-08 · in Signal Secure Backups

…are famously open source - something Apple does not do for pretty much any part of iOS or Mac OS: - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop…

comment by anonym29 · 2025-09-03 · in Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

…like, the process is effectively just doing a build in a docker container and comparing the result. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by tga_d · 2025-08-21 · in Pixel 10 Phones

…https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29888228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39445976 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42788647

comment by fsflover · 2025-07-28 · in The future is not self-hosted

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Signal may silently fall back to "unsealed sender" message if server returns 401 (2024)

story by fsflover · 2025-06-10 · 0 comments

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13842

comment by fsflover · 2025-06-10 · in Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

…comments? They themselves contain the actual links and also relevant discussions. One more link: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13842 > The push notification payloads don't contain message/sender data. The other…

comment by fsflover · 2025-06-10 · in Telegram, the FSB, and the Man in the Middle

Looks like the build is even reproducible. That makes me trust Signal even more. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by Pesthuf · 2025-06-05 · in Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

No. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues?q=is%3Ais...

comment by thrance · 2025-06-05 · in Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

…open-source [1]. You can compile the code yourself and review each PR if you're that paranoid. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android

comment by thrance · 2025-06-05 · in Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

…reproducible builds since Signal Android version 3.15.0, which was first released in March 2016." https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by tuukkah · 2025-05-21 · in What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)

…for someone claiming to build high quality software and accepting my donations. Related issues: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13704 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/12341…

comment by johschmitz · 2025-05-21 · in What makes a good engineer also makes a good engineering organization (2024)

…Signal just released a change that lists all the members in the chat itself. You can guess why ;-) https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/da3fc408f

comment by sudahtigabulan · 2025-04-09 · in How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat

Signal on Android is reproducible https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod... , so _theoretically_ the play store version could be monitored to detect tampering by Google (or whoever). That is, if the reproducible build…

comment by inahga · 2025-03-25 · in The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption

…had asked for basic RCS support (2015) and given up on Google relenting and allowing it in 2018. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/4837

comment by acdha · 2025-03-15 · in Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users

But they do have reproducible builds? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by sunbum · 2025-03-10 · in OpenAPK – open-source Apps for Android, updated weekly

Can you point out where it says it won't be a reproducible output? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by ibotty · 2025-02-25 · in Signal to leave Sweden if backdoor law passes

That's been a thing since March 2016. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

comment by some_furry · 2025-02-18 · in Reviewing the cryptography used by Signal

…code they claim it is? They were caught running proprietary server code for a time in 2020-2021. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/11101#iss... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26715223

comment by greyface- · 2024-12-31 · in More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in

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Signal silently falls back to unsealed sender messages if server returns 401

story by alohapersona4 · 2024-12-15 · 0 comments

…build is reproducible (you can build it yourself and it will match exactly what they publish, see https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod... ). Presumably some people in the world do it. Now of course I personally…

comment by hackernudes · 2024-10-16 · in Should We Chat, Too? Security Analysis of WeChat's Mmtls Encryption Protocol

Signal has been audited. Has Telegram? Signal says it's had reproducible builds since 2016: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

comment by paulryanrogers · 2024-09-27 · in Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974

comment by collyw · 2024-09-18 · in Australia arrests dozens over app allegedly used by criminals worldwide

…end-to-end encryption based on a passphrase tied to the app itself, and known only to the user. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/8974

comment by Zuider · 2024-08-26 · in Pavel Durov and the Blackberry Ratchet

> They distribute binaries on app platforms They seem to support reproducible builds https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod... > and don’t allow third party compiled to connect They don't want 3rd party clients to…

comment by cuu508 · 2024-05-25 · in Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash

…for the version that is on the app store.[2] [1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/releases [2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tags

comment by sigmar · 2024-05-13 · in Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure

…his mind (93 closed issues over 8 years related to F-droid, many asking for F-Droid distribution: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues?q=is%3Ais... ). Signal distributes their own APK from their own site, but still does now…

comment by timschmidt · 2024-04-07 · in The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper

Moxie's reasons for disallowing Signal distribution via F-droid always rang a little flat to me ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/127 ). Lots of chatter about the supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store,…

comment by timschmidt · 2024-04-07 · in The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper

…on how to reproduce their Play Store builds and compare them with what you've installed locally: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by BHSPitMonkey · 2024-02-20 · in Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Both the app and the server is open source https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server There are forks like Session which doesn't require a phone number to sign up…

comment by kaanyalova · 2024-02-20 · in Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7409 > We've discussed at length why this is not possible, but if you have more thoughts then please visit the forums. Please try not to open duplicate issues in the future, even if you…

comment by dsp_person · 2024-02-20 · in Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

…behavior of advertising that one is on Signal to all of their contacts already using it [2]. [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/commit/8797236b5... (PNP stands for "Phone Number Privacy") [2]…

comment by p4bl0 · 2024-02-17 · in Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy

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Signal v7.0.0 with phone number privacy

story by p4bl0 · 2024-02-17 · 107 comments

https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/ https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/blob/main/reprod...

comment by its-summertime · 2024-01-31 · in How can I verify if the code being run is the code presented?

Here is one: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...

comment by nicce · 2023-12-08 · in Building end-to-end security for Messenger