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by Strilanc 3997 days ago
Moxie and Frederic and Christine and the rest definitely deserve a lot of credit.

Half of me is really happy every time I see Signal getting more popular. The other half is more like OH GOD THE STAKES ARE HIGHER NOW WHAT IF I MADE AN EXPLOITABLE MISTAKE BETTER RE-READ SOME CODE.

But seriously, you should read the code. It's there, open for anyone to audit after all. Maybe start somewhere random in the guts [1][2][3] and check for things like "ereh 2# roodkcab"?

1: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Sig...

2: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Sig...

3: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/blob/master/Sig...

1 comments

+[Cryptography generateRandomBytes] should possibly return NSData rather than NSMutableData.