Why “Hash” is being discussed
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The official signal.org blog post I linked does actually explain how it works. They write that the client sends parts of hashed phone numbers to Signal: > The client transmits t…
by fwn · Oct 31, 2026
When they say "social graph for Signal", afaik they don't mean 'on Signal servers' but 'social graph on your phone'. It's a personal social graph that exists on the end-user dev…
by mmooss · Oct 31, 2026
Discovery is important and a hard problem, worth making some trade-offs for. Signal published a good blog post about this, including this passage: > In order to turn the address…
by fwn · Oct 31, 2026
A bank could be hacked but the protocol around transferring funds and the paper trail that follows it is significantly different than an irreversible transfer to anonymous hash…
by gorpigo · Oct 31, 2026
Would like to hear more about the performance characteristics. Do you perfect hash to a contiguous range and then use a jump table, or do you perfect hash directly to relative o…
by RossBencina · Oct 31, 2026
Yeah, I've tried this as well, but via Antigravity - it was very effective. I wish to have some smart router that monitors the trends of your usage and has skills-based routing…
by nikolay · Oct 31, 2026
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