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Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext (stackdiary.com)
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As mentioned in the comments, plain text keys aren't bad because they are necessary. You have to have at least one plain text key in order to be able to use encryption

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[-] Ava@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

The article referenced is about their Desktop application

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