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by jakobdabo 137 days ago
> I believe secrets are still encrypted at this stage similar to cold boot.

Does this mean that the Signal desktop application doesn't lock/unlock its (presumably encrypted) database with a secret when locking/unlocking the laptop?

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It wouldn’t matter because the whole OS would be evicted from memory and the entire storage encrypted.

Signal itself wouldn’t even be detectable as an app