Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and native clients?

Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by zurn on Thursday May 05, 2016 @12:58PM (#11637786)

Terminology nit: s/encrypted/secure/ - lots of systems that have encryption are pretty insecure.

As to the question, how about OTR+XMPP or Signal. Signal desktop is in beta. I don't think you need to worry about running the desktop Chrome extension on iOS since there's a native iOS app too?

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by mellamoyo on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:15PM (#11637969)

I'll have to look into OTR+XMPP. I was hoping for something straightforward for non-technical folks to use as well. Any recommendations on clients?

What I meant by iOS/Chrome is that you currently can't setup the desktop (Chrome) app with an iOS device, it's Android only.

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app with mobile and nati... by cyphar on Friday May 06, 2016 @03:18AM (#11642273)

OTR has issues in instant messaging (if the messages arrive out-of-order you have to restart the session). Also, OTR's security is session based while Axolotl's is message based (Axolotl is an improvement on OTR that Signal uses).

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