Secure messaging app Signal announced this week that it is testing a new technique that will minimize metadata in communications that may be accessible to its servers. Signal says that its “sealed sender” technique should remove most of the plain-text sender information from message headers. It...
At the Real World Crypto security conference Wednesday, researchers disclosed a number of security flaws in popular encrypted messaging apps Signal, Threema, and WhatsApp. Among the three, it was shown that WhatsApp had the biggest security flaw since it could potentially allow hackers to infiltrate...
A new messaging app called Wire is offering end-to-end encrypted services focused on business users who need to protect their business chats and IoT messages. The app is one of the only two which were name-checked by Edward Snowden. The other app, Signal, can only be...
Earlier this week, messaging app Signal revealed plans to use Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) as an additional asset for privacy protection. SGX has been previously criticized for potentially being a route to unbreakable DRM, and for limiting the user’s freedom on his own machine. However,...