Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm?

Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by libeclipse on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:09AM (#12957118)

Wire was in the middle of a shitstorm a while back iirc because it falsly advertised that it encrypted everything end-to-end, when in actual fact only text was so.

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by CmdSft on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:23AM (#12957423)

I think you might be mistaking this with Telegram

http://gizmodo.com/why-you-should-stop-using-telegram-right-...

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by libeclipse on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:26AM (#12958203)

Here's a source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2855745/new-communications-ap...

My mistake. Text isn't end-to-end, only calls are.

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by CmdSft on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @09:36AM (#12958283)

The current Privacy page[1] seems to indicate that, at least now, text, image and voice is end-to-end encrypted.

[1]: https://wire.com/privacy/

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by tdkl on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @12:10PM (#12959946)

Dec 5, 2014 8:42 AM

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by Siimteller on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @06:38PM (#12972698)

That was indeed the case in December, 2014 (before I joined the team). Legal docs were quickly fixed. Tech was fixed in March 2016 when everything (text, assets, calls) were moved to E2EE and open sourced.

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by tmikaeld on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:17AM (#12957152)

Doesn't wire use Webrtc? I thought it was encrypted end to end by default. Do you have a source to this?

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Re:Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm? by anon4711 on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:43AM (#12957251)

Would you mind backing that up with a link?

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