Signal app on Zorin

General Help
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I just installed Signal and as soon as I opened it I got a message that said,
" Signal is being launched with the plaintext password store by default due to database corruption bugs when using the encrypted backends.
This will leave your keys unencrypted on disk as it did in all previous versions.

If you wish to experiment with the encrypted backend, set the environment variable
SIGNAL_PASSWORD_STORE to gnome-libsecret, kwallet,
kwallet5 or kwallet6 depending on your desktop environment using Flatseal or the following command:

flatpak override --env=SIGNAL_PASSWORD_STORE=gnome-libsecret org.signal.Signal

Note that the encrypted backends are experimental and may cause data loss on some systems.**

Press Yes to proceed with plaintext password store or**
No to exit."

Is this a change from previous versions? Does it mean that the encryption keys are not themselves encrypted? I'm not sure where to go from here.

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Yes, it is a change.

Keys stored safely and locally were deemed unnecessary to be encrypted. However, because Security is a selling point, playing the cards of more Security has benefits.
What you choose is dependent on your needs - Is your computer likely to be physically stolen, hacked into and Signal accessed from your machine by thieves?