On 11/09/15, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > What is your opinion on SMSSecure (Send encrypted text messages (SMS)) - > https://f-droid.org/app/org.smssecure.smssecure their web page says that they > are using the same Protocol, I is just a little bit less user friendly > because of the not automatic key exchange at the begining?
In the beginning, when dinosaurs roamed the land, TextSecure only supported sending encrypted SMS. That functionality is what later became SMSSecure. This was the original version 1 of the TextSecure protocol. Then they added the ability to send messages via GSM/WiFi, and changed the TS protocol to version 2. At some point Moxie decided to drop SMS support. This pissed off various people who were clinging to SMS, so the forked, ripped out the SMS code and have been maintaining/developing on it ever since. I have never used SMSSecure. I presume that it probably works on Replicant. I prefer TextSecure, now Signal because I have many friends in different countries, and so the ability to message people via WiFi as opposed to SMS is non-negotiable to me. On 11/09/15, Simon Josefsson wrote: > > Having a centralized server infrastructure can be a > security/privacy/foss concern as well. Are there any free software > Signal servers out there? If one person has the ability to ban > arbitrary people from the network, that raise a red flag to me. > > /Simon @janimo (Works for Canonical, develops TS-QML + the TS Go Library) has a TS Server Docker container you might be interested in if you desire to look into such things: https://github.com/janimo/textsecure-docker Re: The whole federating TS and making a free software server to federate with upstream: I don't see a need for it. If you want extra security/privacy/whatever, run your own server, hand compile apks, and hand them out to your friends to use with your server. It's moxie's server, he's paying monthly for an ISP/datacenter/whatever. Absolutely it's his right to ban whoever he wants off his server - he's paying rent. You don't like it, spin up your own. This whole thing about walled gardens - hello, the server source is openly published. What is a real problem is that the RedPhone server source is hidden. They should have released source for that too. -- If you have PGP and want to communicate privately, my key is in the header of this email. If you're interested and want to learn more: https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-pgp-windows https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-pgp-mac-os-x https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-pgp-linux _______________________________________________ Replicant mailing list Replicant@lists.osuosl.org http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
