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Registration without a phone number on Signal will use zero-knowledge proofs

Article URL: https://community.signalusers.org/t/registration-without-a-phone-number/2222?page=10 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49689048 Points: 179 # Comments: 82

community.signalusers.org ·2026-09-13

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