Signal’s new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with

Signal has introduced a feature called automatic key verification, giving users a new way to confirm that nobody has secretly interfered with their encrypted chats. “Signal is always end-to-end encrypted, and automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm that there’s no unexpected party between you and the other ‘end’ of an end-to-end encrypted session,” Signal engineer Katherine Yen wrote in a blog post. “It works through a system of verifications performed by … More → The post Signal’s new security feature checks if your encrypted chats were tampered with appeared first on Help Net Security.