[messaging] encryption of Signal notification messages

[Tony Arcieri]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Ali Aydin Selcuk <aliaydinselcuk at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Message contents are visible from the notification bar, which should be
> transmitted over Google's or Apple's push notification servers.
>
> We just can't see how this is compatible with the end-to-end encryption
> feature of Signal.
>
> Are we missing something, or is there something fundamentally wrong here?
>

I do not work for or speak for OWS, but that said...

When Signal first launched, the push notification handler just displayed
"New Message". This is annoying from a UX standpoint.

I believe they later added support for decrypting messages within Signal's
push notification handler.

I believe it's also an option you can toggle on and off (so as to e.g.
prevent someone who steals your phone from seeing these messages)

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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