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A private messenger for Android.

372 mentions on Hacker News by 280 people: 29 stories, 343 comments · first 2011-12-21 · latest 2026-10-12

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  1. See https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/127 for a detailed discussion why. You can built it yourself.
    comment by aw3c2 · 2014-02-24 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  2. It is also part of CyanogenMod, and it is open source https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure so you can build it on your own https://www.whispersystems.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/
    comment by r0muald · 2014-02-24 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  3. …build and verify the binaries ourselves. [1] http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ [2] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
    comment by sigil · 2014-02-24 · in The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
  4. …an asynchronous-friendly environment, and optimal forward and future secrecy semantics: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2 It also now supports group messaging and multi-device messaging, but we'll cover those in…
    comment by moxie · 2014-02-17 · in Off-the-Record Messaging Protocol v3
  5. …messages: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri... It's fully open source: https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure You can also sign up to be notified when it's released for iOS:…
    comment by moxie · 2014-01-16 · in NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
  6. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
    comment by andrewschleifer · 2013-12-20 · in Telegram’s Cryptanalysis Contest
  7. Interesting. Some observations: TextSecure has been a work in progress for two years: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/commits/master?... Telegram seems to have been in progress for two months:…
    comment by sillysaurus2 · 2013-12-16 · in Telegram - secure, free messaging
  8. …and several other big-name cryptographers: https://whispersystems.org/ ... and it's open source: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/ ... and they don't try to roll their own crypto: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wik…
    comment by sillysaurus2 · 2013-12-16 · in Telegram - secure, free messaging
  9. I found the spec from another HN thread: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2 Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876165
    comment by conorgil145 · 2013-12-10 · in WhisperPush: Secure Messaging Integration
  10. FYI, from another Verizon user: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/467 Looks like we need to add some new MCC/MNC values to the defaults for that MMSC. Group messages use MMS, so hopefully this gets you down to one problem…
    comment by moxie · 2013-12-09 · in TextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
  11. …thub.com/chrisballinger/Off-the-Record-iOS 2. https://github.com/guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid 3. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
    comment by chrisballinger · 2013-12-06 · in Overrun With Messaging Apps
  12. …servers would do any good (except for metadata) when the clients are handling the encryption. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/
    comment by m_ram · 2013-08-22 · in TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages
  13. …is a facility to verify keys [1] with QR codes or voice over the phone. That's really cool. [1] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Using-Text...
    comment by 7952 · 2013-08-22 · in TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages
  14. Moxie Marlinspike's TextSecure. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri... https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/ Pros: Open source, written by someone well established as being both competent and trustworthy.…
    comment by A3c4a · 2013-08-10 · in Ask HN: Which is the best secure mobile messaging app?
  15. Any reason why you're still only using AES-128? Is that secure enough for the time being? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Encryption-P...
    comment by mtgx · 2013-07-12 · in Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app
  16. …is that Moxie is no pushover in that arena. The following are the protocols used by WhisperSystems: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Encryption-P...
    comment by thezilch · 2013-07-10 · in Pirate Bay co-founder aims to launch surveillance-proof messaging app Hemlis
  17. …can be ported elsewhere with the source being available. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
    comment by yareally · 2013-03-06 · in Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
  18. …so you'll either need to do a lot of copy/pasting or run across your own messaging network. [0] https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol
    comment by ConstantineXVI · 2012-10-18 · in New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous
  19. …app I work on) uses a version of OTR adapted to the mobile environment, which is documented here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/Protocol
    comment by moxie · 2012-10-18 · in New "Surveillance-Proof" App To Secure Communications Has Governments Nervous
  20. Maybe porting TextSecure would be an alternative? https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
    comment by aw3c2 · 2012-08-19 · in Dear Apple: Please set iMessage free
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    WhisperSystems / TextSecure for Android Open-Sourced
    story by nextparadigms · 2012-01-03 · 0 comments
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    Twitter releases TextSecure as open source
    story by narad · 2011-12-21 · 0 comments