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This. I used to recommend TextSecure to all my friends, but it didn't interact well with other services, and then IIRC it stopped working with SMSes entirely.
TextSecure handles SMSes well. It doesn't support encrypted SMS anymore, but that's not a big deal. I've been using TextSecure for awhile now even though I only communicate w/ one other person that uses it.
> It doesn't support encrypted SMS anymore, but that's not a big deal.
Well, it's kinda a big deal if that was the entire reason one was using it…