Signal adds automatic key verification to help prevent Person-in-the-Middle attacks

Signal adds automatic key verification to help prevent Person-in-the-Middle attacks

Signal has added an automatic key verification (AKV) feature to help combat ‘Person-in-the-Middle’ attacks during encrypted chats, the secure messaging platform confirmed this week. “Signal is always end-to-end encrypted,” Katherine Yen, a software engineer at Signal, said, “and automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm that there’s no unexpected party between you and the other ‘end’ of an end-to-end encrypted…