The new release of Signal has support for encrypting and sending arbitrary files. That's a very big deal: for many users it has long been an unsolved problem to securely share documents or recordings, and now it's as easy and sending a text. Update out now for Desktop, iOS, and Android!
@xor and they have given up Google push services, I gather! This is good news!
@xor That is awesome news. 😃
Is there any word on a desktop client that is independent of Chrome?
@DivineOmega I haven't heard anything about that
@xor All I know of is @bcrypt 's work on Signal Muon. https://github.com/diracdeltas/signal-muon
@xor is there a simple easy to use Android app that uses decent but not via level encryption to protect a single text file as a way of keeping track of e.g. Mastodon instance user name/poo password.
Not some elaborate password manager just authenticate, view or edit file, then encypt before save
@Ronkjeffries sorry, I'm not an Android user right now and don't know what's out there
@xor @Ronkjeffries for passwords, I'd actually recommend keepass2android. But for general file encryption on #Android, you want OpenKeychain.
@xor Telegram has this feature, up to 1.5GB.
@xor Does it now has support for Android's granular permissions? It kinda always felt weird that the Android app asks so much permissions upfront.
@resir014 I don't know, I'm not using it on Android
Found an issue thread for this but nope, nothing ever came out of it. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/3983
And @rustyk5 is right: Signal audio and video calling is really great and usually seamless. I had an important hour-long audio call last week and I'd say Signal handled it better than a cell phone line would've.
@xor I definitely prefer it to anything else
@xor very interesting. Still wish I could add my own keys to it - but I guess that's quite a niche use case.
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@xor "for desktop". A chrome-only extention isn't exactly a desktop program.
@zatnosk is sending this toot better than not sending this toot?
@xor this is great. One of my biggest gripes had been not being able to share contacts as vcards via Signal.
thaaaaaaat is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge omg
@xor
source code available soon!