Kleptographic backdoors in the Signal protocol is FUD. I work as a security consultant, which is definitely not a cryptographer, but I do get around and "NSA ma

Kleptographic backdoors in the Signal protocol is FUD. I work as a security consultant, which is definitely not a cryptographer, but I do get around and "NSA made some pretty well hidden backdoors in them to easily decrypt them" is definitely false. > what [if your] mess[en]ger is super duper safe if your device OS running them is plag[u]ed with backdoors This is more relevant. Bugdoors more than backdoors, or perhaps just stupid bugs and enough budget to find them, but yeah basically that's how messages are decrypted these days (e.g. NSO group).