Enigma is a secure messaging app that respects your privacy

Posted by cryo on Thursday December 22, 2016 @05:39PM
from the eijah.com dept.

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Re:Enigma is a secure messaging app that respects your privacy by cyphar on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:37PM (#13242876)

To those who didn't bother to click the link, it's a proprietary app that has EULA restrictions to stop security researchers from trying to exploit it (basically ensuring that any bugs won't be disclosed to the authors).

I pass.

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Re:Enigma is a secure messaging app that respects your privacy by atErik on Friday December 23, 2016 @03:10PM (#13246949)

I downloaded via HTTPS link.

v1.0 apk is 13.1 Mbytes.

Calculated/checked checksum via HashDroid / HashStamp, and it matched.

Allowed "unknown sources" installation, installed it, disallowed "unknown sources".

Its using 51.42Mbytes. Uses 2 Permissions: "Full Network Access", "Control Vibration". So it seems to be not intrusive, inside device.

But it fails to run on Android KitKat ! :(

If it could run, then we would know, where its connecting.

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Re:Enigma is a secure messaging app that respects your privacy by gitpull on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:47PM (#13246821)

PSA: Don't get this from the linked landing page, and don't trust the hash. It's an insecure page. Luckily looks like they do have a valid Let's Encrypt on https://eijah.com/.

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Re:Enigma is a secure messaging app that respects your privacy by max0563 on Friday December 23, 2016 @02:57AM (#13243540)

But... the enigma was broken.

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