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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…even (slightly) larger install-base. EDIT: from the quote you can also gather that they don't use https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
comment by erithax · 2026-01-28 · in Rust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp -
…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 -
This signal? Is proprietary? https://signal.org/docs/ https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
comment by willis936 · 2025-10-03 · in Google Workspace Updates: Send Gmail end-to-end encrypted emails to anyone -
…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 -
…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…
comment by anonym29 · 2025-09-03 · in Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe -
…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 -
…them to publish the source code of their backend service. Does signal sell private licenses? [1] https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal/blob/main/LICENSE
comment by Null-Set · 2022-12-10 · in End-to-end encrypted messages need more than libsignal -
…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…
comment by lucb1e · 2021-06-05 · in Valid Signal privacy issues shrugged off while patches quietly rolled out -
…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
comment by hiq · 2021-04-06 · in It looks like Signal isn't as open source as you thought it was anymore