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toast0last Wednesday at 10:17 PM1 replyview on HN

Afaik, e2e messengers don't include ciphertext with push notifications. It's an empty push to wake the client. Then the client contacts the origin to fetch the ciphertext.


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saagarjhalast Wednesday at 10:35 PM

This is how it used to work; notifications can be encrypted now and Signal uses an extension to decrypt them.

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