When installing Signal on flatpak, I get this message:
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.
Previously I just said yes, but I am kind of wondering, what would be best to do? Has anyone tried using encrypted backends? Is database corrupt bugs common with this option? I’m all for more security but not at the cost of high chances of corruption.