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Re:How Signal Beats WhatsApp by vonklaus on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:29PM (#11978566)
to be clear, I was hoping to build it casually on top of a protocol or library. I would not be planning on rolling my own crypto or anything like that. I want a feature of my application to be encrypted chat which given the large availability or apps & libraries, I was hoping could be more of an integration than a build out.
Re:How Signal Beats WhatsApp by CiPHPerCoder on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:29PM (#11978572)
In that case, the Signal protocol is open source.

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-protocol-c

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/libsignal-protocol-java

More generally (i.e. not for messaging apps), libsodium is great for application-layer cryptography:

https://download.libsodium.org/doc/bindings_for_other_langua...

Re:How Signal Beats WhatsApp by vonklaus on Saturday June 25, 2016 @07:33PM (#11978589)
thanks, I did a cursory look a little while ago and have been thinking of signal. Thanks for the resources. Will check out.