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		Y-bar on Nov 9, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging... I'm ignorant on how backups works on Android, but I have never met an iOS app where data has not been properly backed up and restored. Supposedly this works fine: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iP...

lorenzhs on Nov 9, 2016 [–]

It was a feature in the app to export an encrypted backup to external storage (encrypted with a passphrase of your choice), independent of OS-provided functions. It basically serialised and unserialised its own database.

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