Security

How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats

Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A compromised server could provide a false public key, allowing the client to encrypt messages to an attacker rather than the intended recipient. Until now, the only way to detect such malfeasance was to…

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    How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats

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