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> All message contents are end to end encrypted, so we don't have that information either.

The way I'm reading/understanding this is that they have the encrypted messages, but don't specify whether they are stored. However, since the messages are encrypted, they don't have the message contents/that information. Concluding, they may have all the messages saved, albeit in an encrypted format and with minimal metadata.

Did I come to the right conclusion? Or does Signal not store the encrypted message data either?



Considering the way they claim to minimize the metadata stored, I wouldn't expect them to store encrypted message content after it is delivered to the client.

It'd be difficult to delete metadata about a message, but still keep the content. And they are claiming to not retain message metadata.


That makes sense, but the way they ended up phrasing the sentence was a little weird/suspicious I guess?




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