alt Hacker News> I had thought the push notifications were end-to-end encrypted
Much of the metadata is plaintext, in both Apple and Google's Push Notification architecture.
> I had thought the push notifications were end-to-end encrypted
Much of the metadata is plaintext, in both Apple and Google's Push Notification architecture.
My understanding is that in Signal's implementation of push notifications the message text is end-to-end encrypted by Signal and decrypted on device by the Signal app. The decryption is not handled by the OS's push notification system.