I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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    1 year ago

    Properly encrypted backups should be fine. You should be able to put a backup with a sufficiently secure password anywhere or the encryption is broken, and I don’t think Signal’s is.

    You would need a very good password, of course. I use a 64 or 128 character random string from my password manager for these types of backups and I’m confident posting the files in just about any cloud storage location.

    If the backup isn’t encrypted, or you can’t pick your own key, the situation changes drastically, of course.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but the best encryption is… not to give the data to unwanted third parties. As then they have time of their lives to encrypt that ( if they want ).