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No, you need to initiate a secure session manually, and my experience was that unless you knew the other person was for sure using text secure, this could cause
by hdevalence 13y ago
No, you need to initiate a secure session manually, and my experience was that unless you knew the other person was for sure using text secure, this could cause problems, since of you tried to handshake with the other person using a stock app, it could get stuck in the handshake. This was a while ago, so I don't know if the problem still exists.
Text secure is great, though. Really, really great.
- r0h1n 13y agoMaybe its a Cyanogenmod-only feature then. Because they do claim the app can make the choice transparently without user involvement: https://whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/
- drdaeman 13y agoWonder how this works: https://whispersystems.org/assets/screens/textsecure_upgrade-cd8aa97e8693ba2f02030b0079ac63a4.png https://whispersystems.org/assets/screens/textsecure_upgrade... Unfortunately, there are no explanations on webpage and I'm not currently into the mood of reading source code to figure things out. Maybe outgoing (unencrypted) SMS sent through TextSecure app are tagged as "hey, we can upgrade this to secure comms". Then all you have to do is use the app. But I really don't know.
- leekleak 13y agoThe current SMS-based version of TextSecure uses whitespace tagging for contact discovery. The next-gen data-based TextSecure protocol (which is currently deployed in CyanogenMod's WhisperPush implementation of TextSecure, but not yet in the Play Store app) uploads a hashed list of the user's contacts to the server for contact discovery. https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/contact-discovery/