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A private messenger for iOS.

92 mentions on Hacker News by 75 people: 9 stories, 83 comments · first 2014-07-29 · latest 2026-10-31

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  1. …everything to do with the Signal team not willing to make it user friendly (for this case). [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/wiki/FAQ [2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905
  2. …was requested a long, long time ago (late 2015) and denied stating security as the reason. [2] [1]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/wiki/FAQ [2]: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/905
  3. Yes it does? https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS
  4. and, in addition, anything you run from the App Store: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/641
    comment by conradev · 2018-08-30 · in Krypton: phone-based U2F Authenticator
  5. …further commenting. Anyone interested in what's been happening on this particular issue can visit https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues , search for "backup" and look at the open and closed issues over the past few years. I…
  6. Can you make sure any issues are filed over at github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS ?
  7. …you mind filing an issue about the echo on the corresponding tracker with your device details? iOS: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/new Android: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/new
  8. …gather any information about the individuals or groups with whom you are communicating.” Source: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/wiki/FAQ#what-a...
    comment by cpach · 2017-02-14 · in Encrypted email is still a pain
  9. There are mechanisms to use out of band communication to verify a key: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/wiki/FAQ#can-i-... https://support.wire.com/hc/en-us/articles/207692235-How-can...
    comment by maxerickson · 2017-02-13 · in Encrypted email is still a pain
  10. …guess is because of potential friction with reproducible building (for Android) and this for iOS: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/1063 hth, adric
  11. …been playing catchup and things really only started to get rolling in the past couple months. See: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/graphs/contribu...
  12. …a year and people rarely complain about it I started to wonder if people actually use it heavily. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/769
  13. …noting that GIFs are already supported in the Android version of Signal. And iOS for a while now! https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/pull/886
  14. …even a very nice feature for some, but for me it made me go back to other services. Github issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/967
  15. …App Store encryption[2]. Android is definitely closer[3]. [1] https://reproducible-builds.org [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/641 [3] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/Deterministic,_Reproducible_Bu...
    comment by conradev · 2016-10-15 · in How the Textsecure Protocol Works
  16. It's on the roadmap https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/937 The iOS version didn't have a dev for a while after Frederic Jacobs went to Apple, but Michael Kirk recently took over so things are happening again.
    comment by uph · 2016-10-11 · in Disappearing messages for Signal
  17. …to modify the code and create a branch. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11288169 [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/search?utf8=&q=...
    comment by smartbit · 2016-04-01 · in Reproducible Signal builds for Android
  18. …Commit that removes bloom filters (unreleased, will be in version 2.4): https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/commit/26f9207c...
    comment by praseodym · 2016-03-22 · in Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage
  19. …a fix has not been released yet [1] (and a new release doesn't seem planned for anytime soon). [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/866
    comment by praseodym · 2016-03-21 · in Attack of the Week: Apple iMessage
  20. …iOS desperately needs a new maintainer to replace Fred. Here is the tracking issue for data usage. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/866
  21. You're welcome to inform yourself on the subject before posting crude FUD: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/BUI...
  22. …signal[1], change the icon, and im sure the average ISIS soilder wouldnt know the difference [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS
    comment by misiti3780 · 2016-01-16 · in ISIS Has a Smartphone App
  23. …would allow you to retain a copyleft license and continue to distribute your app on the app store: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/CON...
  24. …Maybe start somewhere random in the guts [1][2][3] and check for things like "ereh 2# roodkcab"? 1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Sig... 2: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Sig... 3:…
    comment by Strilanc · 2015-07-10 · in The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts
  25. …rstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/02/signal-iphones... [1] https://whispersystems.org/blog/signal/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS
    comment by dewey · 2015-04-22 · in Update on Heml.is
  26. They addressed it in this github issue: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/614 I'm also disappointed in this. The people I most want to use this with are also the people who have an iphone4. I don't get the impression it'd…
  27. …first use, similar to SSH. The app also provides an interface you can use to verify fingerprints: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/wiki/FAQ#can-i-...
  28. …on the iPhone! Edit: Apparently it's an iOS issue. Filed rdar://20008371. Plz 2 fix it Apple! [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/244
  29. Text messaging for Signal is not "stalled", just still in development. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/commits/textSec...
  30. …https://whispersystems.org/blog/winter-of-code/ [4] https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure [5] https://github.com/whispersystems/signal-ios [6] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/ [7]…
  31. …- Private Messenger" app. Although, when is the question. https://itunes.apple.com/app/id874139669 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS
    comment by laex · 2014-11-07 · in How secure is TextSecure?
  32. Hey. Could you please file a bug report at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues ? We'll try to work with you to fix the the issue. Thanks!
  33. …for the phone number: isCntactRegisteredWithWhisper calls isPhoneNumberRegisteredWithWhisper: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/19ff47e278... The implementation is simply checking a bloom filter:…