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What is the most secure chat app to use on mobile? (freedombone.net)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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On mobile there are various options. The apps which are likely to be most secure are ones which have end-to-end encryption enabled by default and which can also be onion routed via Orbot. End-to-end encryption secures the content of the message and onion routing obscures the metadata, making it hard for a passive adversary to know who is communicating with who.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

Wire is open source too. https://github.com/wireapp/wire

IIRC both the server and client code is open source. But I don't know if that can be easily proven.

I didn't know about "sealed sender". Sounds great. Though TBH it doesn't seem to be working (yet) on my account. Have you actually tested it?

I'm not sure sealed sender is enough to compensate all signal's other failings. Let's wait and see.

IMO ... this is all a false choice.

If there are too many choices, none will gain critical mass, and all will fail. The key is bridging. Once your messager can bridge to a few other secure messagers (and to email) then it stands a chance of taking on facebook.