> Encryption should be feature #1. Well, you're free to travel back in time to 2008 and propose it to the working group that was making the spec... > If I cou

> Encryption should be feature #1. Well, you're free to travel back in time to 2008 and propose it to the working group that was making the spec... > If I could choose which back end I want to be on, I would choose Google's, especially if that meant messages would be end-to-end encrypted within that sphere. I agree, but it appears the way the protocol is federated means that there isn't specifically one back end. Also, since it does some discovery with a "hidden" sms to the other end to ask if it supports RCS, I imagine end-to-end encryption might not be that hard to tack on...