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Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?

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Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?

@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

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    Brute forcing 4-6 digit pins is trivial.

    And even if the user set a actual password, it’s still very trivial

    https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/

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      “Very trivial” if they set a proper password? Yet the source you provide says it’s robustly secure

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        I can’t find the phrase robustly secure in the last link:

        https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/07/10/a-few-thoughts-about-signals-secure-value-recovery/

        Signal asks users to set a pin/password which needs to be periodically reentered. This discourages people from using high entropy passwords like BIP38.

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