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signalapp/libsignal

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Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2021-01-15 · latest 2026-01-28

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  1. …even (slightly) larger install-base. EDIT: from the quote you can also gather that they don't use https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
  2. …If you, unlike most people, are interested 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/relea…
    comment by godelski · 2025-11-29 · in Molly: An Improved Signal App
  3. This signal? Is proprietary? https://signal.org/docs/ https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
  4. …apps (Android, iOS, and Desktop) as well as server-side. Use outside of Signal is unsupported. https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
    comment by komali2 · 2025-10-02 · in Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets
  5. …library used across the clients and server alike: - https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop - https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal Apple could be this transparent if they wanted to. They choose not to be, because the truth is, they…
  6. …the platforms to use a shared Rust core. However, we're not alone in doing that sort of transition: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal etc. > > To improve the UX with clients, we had to improve the protocol. > > While I believe this to…
    comment by Arathorn · 2025-06-27 · in Matrix v1.15
  7. …them to publish the source code of their backend service. Does signal sell private licenses? [1] https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/blob/main/LICENSE
  8. …of. A quick check, though, the QR code is a bunch of binary data, so I dove into the source code: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client/blob/4446b648f... > very amused that the author censored part of the QR code, but not the human…
  9. …app. To be fair, the absence of an API (which Telegram has) also limits possibilities. [0]: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-client [1]: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli
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    libsignal-client – a Signal protocol implementation in Rust
    story by mcp_ · 2021-01-15 · 12 comments