[Replicant] Using signal/textsecure

[Andrés Muñiz Piniella]

El 10 de noviembre de 2015 14:16:45 GMT+00:00, Tyler <tyler at hack.ink> escribió:
>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.
>
Works on out of the box Android as well, thanks for your information!


>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.


-- 
RichmondMakerlabs.uk
Ham United Group