Yeah, it's really unfortunate that so many users have had to swap out
textsecure for something that may not have timely security fixes. My
text messaging threat model is a pretty common one: I want the content
encrypted but don't mind the trade-offs of graphing obvious social
connections for being able to have reliable and rapid message delivery.
Right now, if I send my boyfriend a textsecure message, it could be
hours before he receives it. Even when we're both actively connected to
the internet. Why? There's no reason to make this
reliability/graph-resistance trade-off in our case. To be clear, we both
still use it, as there's no obvious alternative. For something that is
(in practice) this unreliable/requires an internet connection, we could
just use an OTR client like ChatSecure.
There are lots of issues with being constantly tethered to the internet
also, which I feel are usually brushed aside.
The perils of early adoption sometimes include being disappointed in the
mature product, I guess ;-)
~Griffin
Pranesh Prakash wrote:
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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