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Re:Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption by defen on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:34AM (#25508012)
> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”.

I'm not familiar with Android, but is this an easy step, or a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" step?

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Re:Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption by marcan_42 on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:38AM (#25508071)
It's the "draw the rest of the fucking owl" step because it implies you've already compromised the whole device.
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Re:Signal: Firm claims to have cracked chat app's encryption by lima on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @11:36AM (#25508036)
Easy step, if you have already compromised the device.
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