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		dcre on March 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signal 2.0 released with private messaging support I see it's open source, but is there a good third-party security evaluation of this anywhere?

exo762 on March 2, 2015 | [–]

Yes, there is.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/03/how_secure_is_textse...

https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf

dcre on March 2, 2015 | [–]

Ha — found one:

> You need to have Signal on your iPhone. Full stop.

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/572469319554088960

huhtenberg on March 2, 2015 | [–]

That's an endorsement, not security evaluation. Not exactly the same thing.

nav1 on March 2, 2015 | | [–]

There's a link to it in that conversation: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf

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