How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats

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Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. Signal recently launched an alternative: Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate that your chats are secure without requiring direct safety number comparison. Our current public key is:7fe5d91de235188486d8fb836a6da37e625e2b10eb6d144185b9364cc83cbbb6How to use Automatic Key VerificationYou can enable Automatic Key Verification in Signal by going to “Settings > Privacy > Advanced” and enabling Automatic Key Verification.

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