xeals/signal-back
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Decrypt Signal encrypted backups outside the app
10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 0 stories, 10 comments · first 2018-05-31 · latest 2021-04-17
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https://github.com/xeals/signal-back
comment by johnchristopher · 2021-04-17 · in Corrupt Signal DB issue crashing App and losing data -
…chat history viewer to emerge. You can already export your encrypted backup to a readable CSV file. https://github.com/xeals/signal-back edit: which obviously doesn't work with a corrupted database :p. Signal backup as a service startup ?…
comment by johnchristopher · 2021-02-28 · in Signal Desktop is corrupting its database -
I've tried https://github.com/xeals/signal-back and it's 95% of the way there but could use more attention - maybe it's my backup but the xml-formatted convos were formatted differently than the ones that the sms backup/restore app…
comment by bentcorner · 2021-01-12 · in Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration -
On mobile you can do this via backups and use https://github.com/xeals/signal-back On desktop you can copy the appdata folder over to the new device. (warning: this is not officially supported) Note that you must close the app on desktop…
comment by Snuupy · 2021-01-12 · in Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration -
…backup?: yes Contacted BBC to inform them you "cracked" signal's encryption?: check Profit [1]: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back
comment by scrps · 2020-12-23 · in No, Cellebrite Cannot “Break Signal Encryption” -
…used-by-criminals framing. This is not newsworthy, there are normal tools that do similar things: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back Ugh.
comment by grandchild · 2020-12-11 · in Decrypting the Signal App -
…SMS messages and if you enable backups, it looks like you might be able to extract them with this: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back/blob/master/README.md Not great for the non tech-savvy, but I don’t know of any SMS backup strategy…
comment by stonewareslord · 2020-06-18 · in Siggo: A terminal GUI for signal-CLI, written in Go -
…text with Signal-Back. I'm pretty sure that's all they offer. Edit: last part is wrong, see sibling https://github.com/xeals/signal-back/blob/master/README.md
comment by iudqnolq · 2020-02-14 · in Signal is finally bringing its secure messaging to the masses -
…phones every few years and they expect their data to follow them to the new phone. There's also https://github.com/xeals/signal-back which actually uses the same code as signal to essentially export a backup. If you check their issues…
comment by ytjohn · 2019-01-06 · in Why Telegram is insecure (2015) -
settings -> chats and media -> chat backup and here's an open source project to decrypt them: https://github.com/xeals/signal-back
comment by markovbot · 2018-05-31 · in Ask HN: Is Signal down?