>> Decrypting messages and attachments sent with Signal has been all but impossible…until now.
>> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”.
>Yeah, if you have all the keys you can decrypt stuff..
I'll quote the top post from there.
> This immediately smells of marketing bullshit:
>> Decrypting messages and attachments sent with Signal has been all but impossible…until now.
>> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”.
>Yeah, if you have all the keys you can decrypt stuff..
> This is dumb, please please do not upvote