[mhaymo]

Presumably once the kinks are worked out of this process, it could be merged into the main release of Signal. No second app required.

[shawnz]

I believe the Signal devs expressed a lack of interest in doing this since it would mean embedding secret Whatsapp encryption keys in Signal.

See: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/1014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686179

[Vinnl]

They're interested [1], but as usual, giving some though on how to do that in a privacy-maximising way:

> Thanks, we know [backup] is a big deal and think about it a lot. We're working on ways to do it that would be privacy preserving, and in the mean time we've got the p2p device transfer you mention. We'll keep working to make it better!

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...

[godelski]

The fork is from Johanw666 not Signal. Johan's fork has additional changes in it, such as ignoring deletes.