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Re:Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages by est31 on Monday November 23, 2020 @06:20AM (#25185609)
From the whitepaper it still seems to use RCS for the transport, just encrypting it and using a special mime type. I know that carriers have various RCS apps, but they likely have special access. Cross-carrier apps like Signal would require OS support for RCS APIs.

IIRC there are plans to add such APIs to Android. I've found old threads [0] that it may be included into Android 11 but nothing in the official docs [1].

So maybe it'll be added to Android 12?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/UniversalProfile/comments/g6r4av/an...

[1]: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/features

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Re:Google Is Testing End-to-End Encryption in Android Messages by schmorptron on Monday November 23, 2020 @01:41PM (#25190040)
Interesting, thanks for the info!
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