Ask HN: Best encrypted messaging app atm?

Donald Trump getting elected I am no longer playing around, my life is going full encrypted.

Signal (https://whispersystems.org/) got a good score from EFF. You may find this guide helpful - https://medium.freecodecamp.com/tor-signal-and-beyond-a-law-...

edit: clarification

Check this comparison table: http://öä.eu/bac.html (or the full paper at /bac.pdf)

Security people recommend Signal a lot (e.g. https://medium.com/@thegrugq/signal-intelligence-free-for-al..., Snowden uses it and repeatedly recommended it: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/661313394906161152, ...). Personally, I use it all the time and it's nice. Most of the initial problems have been sorted out, so I encourage anyone who's had trouble with it before to try it out again.

It has text (one-on-one and groups) and voice calls. Things that could use improvement: group management, switching to a new device. It doesn't have some of the features some people like (stickers and whatnot), but personally I don't care much about those. Video calls would also be nice.

I am under the impression iMessage is pretty secure and I use it extensively as most of my friends and colleagues have iPhones.

Refer to http://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf which specifies that RSA 1280-bit keypairs are used, and the private key is held on the device. So in terms of transit - the protocol should be secure.

The only remaining option would be to question whether iOS is secure/insecure.

Apple claims: "Apple does not log messages or attachments, and their contents are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can access them. Apple cannot decrypt the data."