iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

Re:iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol by godelski on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:06PM (#39458054)

Yeah I think this was a bad move for Signal, but I didn't see that happen to my group fortunately. In Signal's defense, my understanding is that this was really an Apple thing. That Apple only lets iMessage connect to SMS so the apps were differing significantly.

I also get the fatigue. Moxie said centralized because they needed to move faster. But Signal has always moved very slow, so it does feel off. But to be fair, it's not like most messenger apps do much.

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Re:iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol by zchrykng on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @02:19PM (#39458220)

They were talking about on Android. Signal supporting SMS was never a thing on iOS.

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Re:iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol by godelski on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @06:03PM (#39460867)

That's my point though. That it is harder to maintain a feature that not only doesn't exist on both development platforms, but can't work on one of them.

Signal is only like 42 people.[0] You gotta triage a lot of stuff. I wish the feature still existed, but I can totally understand why they did that. I'm pretty sure not all 42 people are programmers.

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...

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Re:iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol by pavon on Wednesday February 21, 2024 @08:54PM (#39462168)

> I also get the fatigue.

Agreed. I put most of the blame on Google for deciding to implement RCS as a feature of Messages, rather than an Android OS library/service that any developer could use like SMS.

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