#instant_messaging

Encrypted Messaging Apps Have Limitations You Should Know | WIRED
►https://www.wired.com/story/encrypted-messaging-isnt-magic

Signal, WIRED’s secure messaging recommendation, is open source, but it also proved its trustworthiness in a 2016 case where the service was subpoenaed. Developer Open Whisper Systems responded to a grand jury subpoena saying it could only produce the time an account was created and the most recent date that a user’s Signal app connected to its servers. The court had asked for significantly more detail like user names, addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Signal had retained none of it.

More is Less: On the End-to-End Security of Group Chats in
Signal, WhatsApp, and Threema
▻https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/713.pdf

#sécurité #vie_privée #communication #instant_messaging

Why I won’t recommend #Signal anymore
►https://sandervenema.ch/2016/11/why-i-wont-recommend-signal-anymore #messagerie #messagerie_instantanée #messaging #instant_messaging #Google #fédération

An excellent post from the author of Conversations, fighting against common beliefs and explaining in a clear way how XMPP works (talking about encryption, push, battery life, reliability), and why it’s a very well thought and modern protocol.

I highly recommend reading it.

►https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html

#XMPP #conversations #push #mobile #instant_messaging #logiciel_libre #decentralisation #decentralization