Encrypted profiles for Signal now in public beta
The latest Signal beta for Android and iOS introduces support for Signal Profiles. Profiles allow you to add a picture and display name that will be shown alongside your existing phone number when
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Technology preview: Private contact discovery for Signal
At Signal, we’ve been thinking about the difficulty of private contact discovery (/blog/contact-discovery/) for a long time. We’ve been working on strategies to improve our current design, and
Read receipts are coming to Signal
Today’s beta release of Signal for Android and iOS includes support for read receipts. This is an optional new feature that gives you the ability to see and share when messages have been read.
Standalone Signal Desktop
Signal Desktop is now available (/download/) in a new, standalone form, and the Chrome App (https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps) has been deprecated. Read more...
Expanding Signal GIF search
Today’s Signal beta for iOS includes support for animated GIF search. Signal iOS has long supported sending and receiving GIFs, but today’s beta adds support for browsing and searching popular
Signal partners with Microsoft to bring end-to-end encryption to Skype
In collaboration with Signal, Microsoft is introducing a Private Conversations (https://go.skype.com/privateconversations) feature in Skype, powered by Signal Protocol. Read more...
Signal Foundation
Long before we knew that it would be called Signal, we knew what we wanted it to be. Instead of teaching the rest of the world cryptography, we wanted to see if we could develop cryptography that
A letter from Amazon
Last week, we received the following email from Amazon: From: [redacted], [redacted] <[redacted]@amazon.com> Subject: Notification of potential account suspension regarding AWS Service Terms
I link therefore I am
The latest releases of Signal for Android, Desktop, and iOS are rolling out now with the ability to send optional link previews. This feature is built on the same foundation that has powered
Signal for iPad, and other iOS improvements
Signal 3.0 is now available in the App Store (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/id874139669?mt=8): • iPad support has arrived. Set up your favorite tablet as a linked
Technology Preview: Signal Private Group System
Groups are inherently social, and Signal is a social app. Whether you’re planning a surprise party, discussing last night’s book club meeting, exchanging photos with your family, or organizing
Sometimes once is better than a lifetime
Today’s beta releases of Signal for Android and iOS include a new way to send individual photos and videos that are automatically removed from a conversation thread after they have been viewed.
Storage management for Signal Android
Signal for Android now includes storage management functionality that helps visualize files across all of your conversations, sorted by size and type, in order to assist you in reducing the amount of
Improving Registration Lock with Secure Value Recovery
Registration Lock (https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Registration-Lock) allows you to set a PIN that is required for account registration in addition to standard SMS-based
Take a shortcut through keyboard history
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230, or not 230? That is the EARN IT question.
Over the past several weeks, Signal traffic has gone through the roof. New users are signing up at unprecedented rates, and we’ve expanded our server capacity faster than we ever anticipated. It
Introducing Signal PINs
At Signal, our goal is to build a reliable, secure, and private communication experience that is broadly accessible and simple to use. From the beginning, we’ve designed Signal so that your
Blur tools for Signal
Right now, people around the world are marching and protesting against racism and police brutality, outraged by the most recent police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. At Signal, we
Looking back at how Signal works, as the world moves forward
In the midst of world-wide protests against racism and police brutality, a lot of people are becoming more immediately aware and concerned about the security of their data and online communication.
Encrypt your face
One immediate thing seems clear about 2020: it’s a good year to cover your face. Online, we’re working to scale and improve Signal (/blog/blur-tools/) for everyone that is relying on it, but as
