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Signal knows all of their users’ phone numbers.

Only the hash of your phone number.

How exactly is it hashed? There aren’t that many possible phone numbers, so it might be viable to just try every valid number until you find one that matches

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Here’s what Signal says: https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/

Good correction, thanks

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