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…the company may leave, but Signal the app will try to stay relevant for as long as possible. [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy

comment by jeroenhd · 2023-05-27 · in KryptEY – Android keyboard for E2EE comms via Signal protocol in any messenger

Posting here to add a mention of Signal-TLS-Proxy: https://signal.org/blog/run-a-proxy/ https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy

comment by grappler · 2022-10-01 · in Tell HN: The Internet situation inside Iran

…you can merge the nginx config with your own existing one, it seems pretty straightforward to me: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/data...

comment by neurostimulant · 2022-09-23 · in Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community

It's a bit odd to use a custom docker image, rather than the one maintained by nginx Inc though: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/ngin... Vs https://github.com/nginxinc/docker-nginx For one, this is 5 versions behind…

comment by e12e · 2022-09-23 · in Signal TLS Proxy

…can check that file and just add it yourself to an nginx you manage, probably with little changes. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/data...

comment by tecleandor · 2022-09-23 · in Signal TLS Proxy

…acting as a relay to proxy requests to Signal's server. Here is the nginx config for the relay: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/main/data...

comment by neurostimulant · 2022-09-23 · in Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community

It's unfortunate to see so many open PRs in the repo: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pulls

comment by ebcase · 2022-09-23 · in Help people in Iran reconnect to Signal – a request to our community

…insults, they did not attack the people behind signal I refute this statement with the following: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec...…

comment by proactivesvcs · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…what pull requests are for? Does this look like an attempt at productive contribution to you? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15 Is this a good patch? It just drops a random file into the repo.…

comment by FDSGSG · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…other than "boo hoo, we weren't listened to" (which is not surprising, given their behavior) [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... [1]: https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/

comment by smokey_circles · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…of Signal in a way that is respectful to the rest of the community, please join in on the forums. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... That does not to me seem like "shutting down the conversation completely".…

comment by jrochkind1 · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

The answer from Moxie to these people: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... I think that says it all. I'm also a bit concerned that "security researchers" don't seem to understand the threat model. Signal has…

comment by hiq · 2021-02-09 · in A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community

…face. I hope Signal can make something better than this (, and it seems they are trying [0]). [0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/15#issuec... Off topic: There are only 2 useful posts in the issue #15, one was the…

comment by nirui · 2021-02-08 · in Signal ignores proxy censorship vulnerability, bans researchers

Sure! I also opened another PR to check the archive signature: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/10

comment by kdunglas · 2021-02-05 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

It only allows a whitelist of Signal related URLs, nothing else. See here in the code: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/master/da...

comment by 2cb · 2021-02-05 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

I (partially) fixed this issue, and I'm not affiliated in any way with Signal. It's public ( https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/pull/2 ), and it looks like they welcome contributions, because they merged mine.

comment by kdunglas · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

And it seems they've fixed the issue, without any kind of public comment.... still not great: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/commit/39a97da...

comment by kelnos · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

This proxy failed to be probing resistant. The PoC code is released by studentmain: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/issues/3#issue...

comment by realducksoft · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

…confidence (but it's unclear to me whether the person is affiliated with the project or not). [1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/issues/6

comment by gspr · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/issues/3 is the major issue with the current proxy and hopefully it's fixed quickly before a bunch of folks set up a proxy and forget about it.

comment by benlivengood · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

Here is an interesting discussion: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/issues/3

comment by realducksoft · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal

…container has really bad security such as: RUN wget http://nginx.org/download/nginx-1.18.0.tar.gz https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-TLS-Proxy/blob/master/ng... Installing via HTTP, with no verification of installer seems like a…

comment by IncludeSecurity · 2021-02-04 · in Help users in Iran reconnect to Signal