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If you want this functionality now: http://threema.ch/en/ http://threema.ch/en/
by m-app 13y ago
If you want this functionality now: http://threema.ch/en/ http://threema.ch/en/
- iuguy 13y agoI've just bought this for iOS, looks very interesting.
- autodidakto 13y agoExactly. You have SMS style messages (text, images, offline support) that are end-to-end encrypted (verifiably, despite being closed source). iOS and Android; group chat coming; desktop coming; Interesting feature that aids in authentication (scan each others' QR code for auth, etc); $2. While it has more attack surfaces than OTR, it's 10x more convenient: No need to agree to anything before-hand (most likely insecurely), no need to keep anything running (offline support via threemas servers which only see metadata and ciphertext); no setting up jabber services. This is a nonstarter for unsophisticated users (whom we desperately need to help flood NSA with ciphertext, and whom I rather chat with in anything but plaintext). While not as battle tested as GPG, it's trivial to set up -- already got my tech friend, my non tech mom, my non tech cousin on it. Has forward secrecy. I still haven't figured out Inline PGP vs S/MIME vs PGP mime. Neither has K9Mail + APG apparently. I hope soon to be recommending bitmessage over email/GPG. I wish, oh how I wish, there were a way that open source projects could charge $2 bucks and be continually improving their services and solving both the engineering and usability of crypto products. Now or never folks: The next NSA scandal might be too late.