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fylo | 3 months ago

Any reference to the trivial mitm attacks which signal has suffered?

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upofadown|3 months ago

This is mostly about the usability issues that make such attacks work so well on Signal:

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/09...

This adds some detail about how Signal can do MITM attacks:

https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/06/28/202106-hey-signal-gr...

Some of the details might of changed since publication. My current understanding is that Signal doesn't even bring up the idea of identity verification if a user has not previously done it. So if anything, things have gotten worse.