carwood · HackerTrans

It was a large maintenance burden: "It’s holding us back. Dealing with all the corner cases associated with the encrypted SMS/MMS transport prevents us from dedicating focus and attention to make the overall product better." https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

carwood

11 anni fadiscuss

I don't share your view. Encrypted SMS functionality was not ready for the masses with the key exchanges, meta data leakage and was source of many bugs. Now users are never confronted with keys and other scary stuff :) Furthermore, most of my friends have switched from WhatsApp, so they did not use the encrypted SMS functionality in the first place.

I'm very impressed with the apps Whisper Systems have delivered. Please support them to accelerate development for even better encrypted communications!

carwood

11 anni fadiscuss

Don't forget to install Signal on iOS and Redphone/Textsecure on Android: https://whispersystems.org/

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