On: Multiple Russia-aligned threat actors actively targeting Signal Messenger

[kibwen]

A ciphertext is not sensitive information. If your ciphertext can't be exposed to an adversary, your cryptography is fundamentally broken.

[nightpool → kibwen]

You can't make that statement blindly without knowledge of the entire cryptosystem and threat model. For example, to me, an encrypted version of my email address, as used by many ad networks to do retargeting, is still sensitive information if it lets Walmart serve me ads based on my Google search history.