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Re:Looking back at how Signal works by fossuser on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:31PM (#23435205)
My (limited) understanding is numbers are queried to see if accounts exist, but those queries are not connected to the users sending them (and they are obscured in transit).

Am I wrong?

Signal’s cryptography has also gotten a ton of attention, I don’t think the same is true for competitors.

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Re:Looking back at how Signal works by est31 on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:44PM (#23435274)
Transit encryption is employed by other services as well. Whether there is de-correlation on the cloud backend I don't know. Maybe there is, but you can't really verify that and it's easy to correlate them again, especially if clients use ipv6 or non-CGNAT ipv4.
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