It is good that commercial messengers forced GSM association to finally create E2EE standards. The reason why telcos want you to use RCS becomes obvious if you calculate how much 1Gb of data costs if sent as SMS (I guess that one could buy a car with this money).
Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
11–20 of 270 posts
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#12Why was RCS even designed with a none encrypted mode? I get that the original spec isn't exactly new, but it's also not so old that encryption, security or privacy wasn't an issue.
I'm not sure about the case of RCS, but I've seen some instances of a none cipher being better for compression and deduplication, because the encryption messes with the data.
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#13Announcement discussion from 2023: Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082 793 points | 709 comments
The big difference:
> The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE
> While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#14Still waiting for Google Fi to turn RCS on for iOS users :(
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#15[deleted]
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#16Now if only we could get Google to support RCS in Google Voice.
It’s really odd they don’t, I’m incredibly curious why.
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#17Still waiting for Google Fi to turn RCS on for iOS users :(
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#18This is great in principle. I still prefer Signal as the top-shelf experience of iOS—Android communication.
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#19Now if only we could get Google to support RCS in Google Voice.
It’s really odd they don’t, I’m incredibly curious why.
GVoice gets forgotten about, I swear.
There are years between updates and then suddenly for like 6 months it'll get a slew of updates, most of which aren't user-facing. Then back to update silence. It's really odd.
I'm still amazed that google hasn't killed it.
Re: Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s really odd they don’t, I’m incredibly curious why.
GVoice gets forgotten about, I swear. There are years between updates and then suddenly for like 6 months it'll get a slew of updates, most of which aren't user-facing. Then back to update silence. It's really odd. I'm still amazed that google hasn't killed it.
I always wondered if it's still alive only because Larry or Sergey use it every day.