This seems to be the successor project, dedicated, afaics, solely to SMS (i.e., dropping the data components from TextSecure, though I might be wrong on this):

SMSSecure:
https://smssecure.org/
https://github.com/SMSSecure/SMSSecure

Given that TextSecure is now no better than WhatsApp (both do push messaging, both use phone numbers as identities, both use the axolotl ratchet, etc.), I don't really see a need to promote TextSecure over WhatsApp for casual (not-at-high-risk) encryption. SMSSecure, on the other hand, does something that WhatsApp, WeChat, etc., can't.

~ Pranesh

Hans of Guardian <[email protected]> [2015-03-09 11:44:28 -0400]:

That's unfortunate.  But it does keep with Whisper System's general way of 
operating: they focus on the part of the problem that they can handle well.  
I'm not surprised its quite hard to handle encrypted SMS in conjunction with 
internet-based encrypted messaging.  But I'm guessing this will leave a lot of 
people without encrypted messaging.  I looks like TextSecure is being 
positioned to compete with all the big time messaging apps out there, like 
WeChat, WhatsApp, etc.

.hc

On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Carol Waters wrote:

Despite this very nice explanation of why OWS is dumping SMS, there are users 
who still want/need this. Are there plans for a fork or for someone to 
keep/post an .apk of TS 2.6 for the future?
-Carol
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