Thanks for working on signal, my main messenger :)
Now to the issue: Currently backing up signal is a bit of a pain; I cannot update it along with my other android applications using oandbackup; initially it seems to work but, when I try to restore signal on the same phone, I just get error messages.
This is a major pain, mostly because it comes so unexpected; there is no warning during backup, it just fails on restore.
The current solution is to use the signal backup feature; unfortunately this still falls short, for to reasons: (1) it is a bit of a pain to have to backup signal separately (2) the actual encryption/authentification keys are not backed up.
The latter is an issue, because at least my contacts have by now been trained to simply disregard notifications of my security number changing, because I had two phones breaking this year.
In order to remedy this situation, I suggest introducing a restore key/password; this key could be user chosen or could be issued on the first install. I could safely store it in my gpg encrypted password manager on my laptop and just use that to unlock my signal instance after any backup.
koraa
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5 years ago
Thanks for working on signal, my main messenger :)
Now to the issue: Currently backing up signal is a bit of a pain; I cannot update it along with my other android applications using oandbackup; initially it seems to work but, when I try to restore signal on the same phone, I just get error messages.
This is a major pain, mostly because it comes so unexpected; there is no warning during backup, it just fails on restore.
The current solution is to use the signal backup feature; unfortunately this still falls short, for to reasons: (1) it is a bit of a pain to have to backup signal separately (2) the actual encryption/authentification keys are not backed up.
The latter is an issue, because at least my contacts have by now been trained to simply disregard notifications of my security number changing, because I had two phones breaking this year.
In order to remedy this situation, I suggest introducing a restore key/password; this key could be user chosen or could be issued on the first install. I could safely store it in my gpg encrypted password manager on my laptop and just use that to unlock my signal instance after any backup.