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Ayo here, from Hipmob. We released this peer-to-peer chat on top of the same SDK that runs our live support chat product which powers thousands of monthly conve

by kunle 14y ago

Ayo here, from Hipmob. We released this peer-to-peer chat on top of the same SDK that runs our live support chat product which powers thousands of monthly conversations. This makes it drop dead easy to let your users talk to each other, and enables image & audio sharing in chat. Happy to answer any questions directly and more features are coming soon - ping me at ayo (at) hipmob dot com.

gsibble 14y ago
Okay, I'll bite. Are your chats secured and if so using what standards? There was a good discussion about Whatsapp regarding this last week.
- fomojola 14y ago
  Femi from Hipmob here: we think we're reasonably secure. All communication to our communication network uses TLS: text, audio files or images are all encrypted in transit to/from the handset, and all authentication requests are over HTTPS. We don't read or use any UDIDs, IMEI values or other handset specific information for authentication: we generate our own identifiers (and allow the developer to specify one if they choose). There are some conveniences you give up if you don't use handset specific info, but we can work around those and it makes sleeping at night a lot easier.
  - quesera 14y ago
    But you can spend all day and night reading users' private messages and photos, right?
    - gsibble 14y ago
      It would be more difficult to set it up to protect users' messages. Government will also come after you for not being able to tap into communications with a warrant. It's all besides the point. This is a chat product not billed as being extremely secure. Just easy to use.
      - quesera 14y ago
        I know, but the question was about security, and I think the answer is incomplete without a description of your treatment of user data at rest. You're doing the normal thing, and it's probably appropriate. I'm interested in hearing about products that do different things, so I asked. Btw, government will not come after you for not being able to tap into communications. Where did you get that crazy idea? Edit: sorry, I didn't realize you weren't speaking for Hipmob.
  - gsibble 14y ago
    Thank you for the interesting reply!

by kunle 14y ago

gsibble 14y ago

Okay, I'll bite. Are your chats secured and if so using what standards? There was a good discussion about Whatsapp regarding this last week.

fomojola 14y ago
Femi from Hipmob here: we think we're reasonably secure. All communication to our communication network uses TLS: text, audio files or images are all encrypted in transit to/from the handset, and all authentication requests are over HTTPS. We don't read or use any UDIDs, IMEI values or other handset specific information for authentication: we generate our own identifiers (and allow the developer to specify one if they choose). There are some conveniences you give up if you don't use handset specific info, but we can work around those and it makes sleeping at night a lot easier.
- quesera 14y ago
  But you can spend all day and night reading users' private messages and photos, right?
  - gsibble 14y ago
    It would be more difficult to set it up to protect users' messages. Government will also come after you for not being able to tap into communications with a warrant. It's all besides the point. This is a chat product not billed as being extremely secure. Just easy to use.
    - quesera 14y ago
      I know, but the question was about security, and I think the answer is incomplete without a description of your treatment of user data at rest. You're doing the normal thing, and it's probably appropriate. I'm interested in hearing about products that do different things, so I asked. Btw, government will not come after you for not being able to tap into communications. Where did you get that crazy idea? Edit: sorry, I didn't realize you weren't speaking for Hipmob.
- gsibble 14y ago
  Thank you for the interesting reply!