Signal sealed sender

 

What is the sealed sender feature? 

Signal is super intent on establishing itself as a pioneer in terms of maintaining user privacy and protecting user data at any cost. Since this app is not driven by profit and is deeply concerned with maintaining and protecting user privacy, it’s introducing features that will help it to maintain its ethos successfully. One of them is the Sealed Sender feature. 

This feature will reduce the information that is mandatorily made available to any messaging app or service. This includes the information in the metadata like the sender’s name, user location, profile information, etc.

Like a sealed envelope, the feature conceals the information of the sender like their name and location in an encrypted package that will not be stored in the app’s server. The server will only know whom the message must be sent to and the message can only be sent if the sender has the delivery token/identifier of the receiver i.e the person must be a verified contact number or Signal profile.

 

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