Posts from August 2025

• Migrating Signal Desktop keyring backend

  13 August 2025 | signal encryption | Comment

  Since 2024, the Signal encrypted messenger desktop app uses the Electron safeStorage API to protect its database encryption key. On Linux systems, this means that the freedesktop.org Secrets API is used, which on GNOME is provided by GNOME Keyring, but on KDE is provided… »