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The complete source code of the Signal clients for Android, iOS and desktop is available on GitHub under a free software license. [ 11 ] [ 10 ] [ 12 ] This enables interested parties to examine the code and help the developers verify that everything is behaving as expected.
Open Whisper Systems (abbreviated OWS [7]) was a software development group [8] that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013. The group picked up the open source development of TextSecure and RedPhone, and was later responsible for starting the development of the Signal Protocol [9] and the Signal messaging app.
The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for voice and instant messaging conversations. [2] The protocol was developed by Open Whisper Systems in 2013 [ 2 ] and was introduced in the open-source TextSecure app, which later became Signal .
It just released a stand-alone PC app, Signal Desktop, that offers privacy-minded messaging without heading to the web. The experience isn't a radical break from what you've known before, but it ...
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The secondary device is a computer running a desktop operating system, which serves as a companion for the primary device. Desktop messaging clients on secondary devices do not function independently, as they are reliant on the mobile phone maintaining an active network connection for login authentication and syncing messages.
Matthew Rosenfeld, better known by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, is an American entrepreneur, cryptographer, and computer security researcher. [1] [3] Marlinspike is the creator of Signal, co-founder of the Signal Technology Foundation, and served as the first CEO of Signal Messenger LLC.
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