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How do you use these things in the wild? Privacy stacks generally require that they are installed on both ends of the message. Trying to get my friends and fami
by acconrad 12y ago
How do you use these things in the wild? Privacy stacks generally require that they are installed on both ends of the message. Trying to get my friends and family to exchange encrypted texts or OTR IMs is basically impossible.
- tP5n 12y agoEncrypted text messages are relatively easy to implement as the apps (textsecure/redphone - signal) in question 'stack' nicely on top of whatever they were using for SMS already. Encrypted mails are more problematic but aslong as they are using web mail, get them Mailvelope. On android with the K9 mailclient (+ openkeychain/apg) PGP-inline is possible to use, while it's not something your 'friends and family' will enjoy. I have a personal disdain for pidgin/adium (libpurple), but similar to encrypted text messages: Once setup OTR is out of the way of your standard IM usage and it comes down to understanding user authentication.
- s_q_b 12y agoTor's transparent and only my problem, Signal is easy to set up for laymen, GPGTools isn't hard to walk through (I know attorneys that use it just fine), OTR has plugins for everything that supports XMPP...