Popular encrypted messaging app Signal is facing criticism over a security issue in its desktop application. Researchers and app users are raising

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

  • tatterdemalion@programming.dev
    13·
    6 months ago

    This reminds me of the apparent gnome-keyring security hole. It’s mentioned in the first section of the arch wiki entry: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNOME/Keyring

    Any application can read keyring entries of the other apps. So it’s pretty trivial to make a targeted attack on someone’s account if you can get them to run an executable on their machine.

    • AVincentInSpaceEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Exactly. Discord token stealers have been around for ages but no one gives Discord flak about leaving that secret unencrypted.