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fwiw, https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4577... lists a workaround. Not usable for mere mortals unfortunately :(

comment by unhammer · 2016-11-18 · in Why is it so hard to back up and restore Signal? Why do you lose your keypair?

That sounds like a really good technical discussion to have with the OWS team. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues

comment by CiPHPerCoder · 2016-11-08 · in A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol

I know the redphone is library is just a binary blob in the github repository: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master/libs/armeabi But I always thought that .so was just a compiled version of this C++ source, which in…

comment by rstuart4133 · 2016-11-06 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

…Java, so the type of memory corruption vulnerabilities you're thinking about are not a possibility: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master...

comment by moxie · 2016-11-06 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/tree/master...

comment by theGimp · 2016-11-05 · in Why I won't recommend Signal anymore

See Moxie's explanation here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

comment by bradyo · 2016-11-03 · in MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

See Moxie's explanation here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... The whole thread is a good read too haha

comment by bradyo · 2016-11-03 · in MicroG Project: A re-implementation of Google's Android apps and libraries

…does have more security than WhatsApp because I trust OWS more than I trust WhatsApp/Facebook. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by heartsucker · 2016-11-02 · in Signal and Giphy

…displayed isn't even the right thing to care about, since they're using SHA1 for the hash AFAICT: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/3.0.0/...

comment by lenish · 2016-10-12 · in Disappearing messages for Signal

…that still won't help people that are trying to build a Google-free experience on Google's platform https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 , since we still don't have the things we need…

comment by uph · 2016-10-11 · in Disappearing messages for Signal

…we can at least define a limit to what information can be stored that is not end-to-end encrypted. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by jedahan · 2016-10-04 · in Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

Since their client apps are OSS you can check yourself: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by 5ersi · 2016-10-04 · in Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data

…discontinued. I don't know what the heck is going on with this, but yeah, it's not pretty. [0]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1106 [1]: https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco... There's also…

comment by Sylos · 2016-08-22 · in Taking the final wrapper off of Android 7.0 Nougat

…in Signal, a FOSS messaging app: https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp-complete/ Source is here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android

comment by eosrei · 2016-06-26 · in Supreme Court to hear petition seeking ban on WhatsApp

…a simple CLI would do. If those 2 things were fixed, it'd be an awesome messaging platform. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/1000 [2] https://fdroid.eutopia.cz/

comment by nextos · 2016-06-26 · in How Signal Beats WhatsApp

…conversations like this one, and grow to understand something new about computer security. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#... [2]…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…up to him. He doesn't like how F-Droid uses centralized signing keys which are stored online: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#...

comment by neerdowell · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…yanogenmod.org/blog/whisperpush-end-of-life ), that he sabotages non-Google-controlled repositories ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 ) of his so called open software client. I don't care that much because for…

comment by mcepl · 2016-05-11 · in Reflections: The ecosystem is moving

…be properly informed on this issue. You're not. Here's an okay starting point into the discussion: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282 Another thing to remember is that (IIRC) -for approximately forever- Red Hat…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…Whisper Systems nor are you likely to be providing the same security guarantees that they are. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281#... [2]…

comment by simoncion · 2016-05-11 · in Moxie Marlinspike Makes Encryption for Everyone

…the communications of the official clients are sent to some "official" Signal Amazon servers (see https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master... ). Doing end to end encryption is nice, but I really think that having a…

comment by edhelas · 2016-04-08 · in WhatsApp Rolls Out End-To-End Encryption to Its Over 1B Users

…possible an open source WhatsApp client could as well. [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Reprod...

comment by danjoc · 2016-04-06 · in WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete

…stops you from building the Docker image yourself using the Dockerfile provided in the repo. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master...

comment by haffenloher · 2016-04-01 · in Reproducible Signal builds for Android

…or registration, and is metadata-safe, but the limited feature set leaves a bit to be desired. [0]: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/5009

comment by brbsix · 2016-02-29 · in Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone (2014)

I encourage you to do the same: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 Security should be available to all, not just those with the environment and know-how to compile apps from source. Doubly so on iOS where you have…

comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2016-02-26 · in Apple hires one of the developers behind Signal

…any security-critical software. [0] https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/ [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/f666... [2] [2] And the initial import date on the GH repo jives with the date on the…

comment by simoncion · 2016-01-22 · in WhisperPush – End of Life

…in charge of design, implementation, and packaging. This guy doesn't seem to be such a person. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127#... [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/282#... [2]…

comment by simoncion · 2016-01-21 · in WhisperPush – End of Life

…carefully doing excellent work with Signal. Software like this is a great benefit to society. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/127 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/281…

comment by simoncion · 2016-01-20 · in WhisperPush – End of Life

…key and it allows you to send messages to offline contacts. 1: https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ 2: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/Protoc... 3: http://conversations.im/omemo/

comment by Flowdalic · 2016-01-07 · in OX (OpenPGP for XMPP): A New OpenPGP XEP

…yourself. They even provide instructions. So you could avoid gapps for that one with a bit of work. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/wiki/How-to...

comment by ickwabe · 2016-01-06 · in Should (and could) you ditch Apple, Google and Microsoft?

Me too, I submitted it to them and Moxie closed the issue without much elaboration: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4726

comment by StavrosK · 2015-12-01 · in Show HN: Discover a user's contacts without ever knowing their contacts

These are the client (GPLv3) and server (AGPLv3) repositories: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server

comment by haffenloher · 2015-11-03 · in Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app

>Why isn't it a walled garden then? Because the client and server are both OSS? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Server

comment by lsaferite · 2015-11-03 · in Signal for Android: RedPhone and TextSecure in one app

…and then click through a warning about playing media insecurely before stagefright got involved." https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817 See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959070

comment by jsingleton · 2015-07-28 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

See also: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3818

comment by steveklabnik · 2015-07-28 · in TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability

…a way to block numbers in TextSecure or I would use it ... Oh they implemented it last month :D https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/222

comment by emmab · 2015-07-28 · in TextSecure response to Stagefright Android vulnerability

…default SMS handler should protect you from drive-by infection through malicious MMS payloads. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

comment by simoncion · 2015-07-28 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

…that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

comment by simoncion · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

…that media attached to an MMS message is not decoded until you actually open the attachment. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

comment by simoncion · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

…you tell it to open it (which will popup a warning that things are leaving TS's sandbox). 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/3817

comment by aidenn0 · 2015-07-27 · in Major Flaw in Android Phones Would Let Hackers in with Just a Text

…you're referring to this [0]? I think it's a bit more nuanced than you're letting on here. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127

comment by losvedir · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

…also uses TextSecure it's - well - secure (and free) and you don't have to think about it. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/commits/master

comment by rhblake · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

From https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/53 Moxie: "I'd like to avoid distributing APKs outside of the Play Store" Why give a single entity the power to push a malicious update anytime?

comment by btczeus · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

This code is closed? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure

comment by nly · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

For those interested in the rationale: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127#issu...

comment by theGimp · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

…websocket fork is somewhat dead [6]. 0: https://f-droid.org/posts/security-notice-textsecure/ 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127 3: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1000 4:…

comment by _jomo · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…And still no way to register without a phone, which would be amazing for this kind of project: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/1085 I think Telegram is succeeding in what TextSecure is failing: attracting a widespread…

comment by gioi · 2015-06-24 · in Telegram Bot Platform

…isn't crazy in-depth, but it's a really neat protocol that offers forwards and future security. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2

comment by jszymborski · 2015-04-25 · in Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform

…a user your contacts and opening the app), there's only one reason you would be there. [3] See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/commit/40eca5e0...

comment by pR0Ps · 2015-04-09 · in SMSSecure – SMS Encryption for Android

Relevant pull request: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/pull/2817

comment by pR0Ps · 2015-04-07 · in SMSSecure – SMS Encryption for Android