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Can you tell us all more here?
Sure, Situation: Us "techies" know or easily can learn how to set up encryption and protect ourselves, the general public will not. Everyone needs encryption but most will only use it if: -their friends are using it -it is so easy a cave man can do it -it is beautiful Complication: Current products are hard to use and are built for hackers. Encryption products need to build in vitality and understand the use cases of…
https://www.prettyeasyprivacy.com/
They have iOS and Android clients, along with a subscription available for Outlook (Windows), and planned desktop versions for Apple Mail, Thunderbird and Web Browsers (Safari, Mozilla, Chrome and IE).
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"Biocoded source code, security protocols and implementations are audited by independent security agencies. Open source is not a guarantee or even an indicator of security. For sensitive governmental and corporate use, open source solutions are often dismissed outright." https://biocoded.com/faq#0
> Open source is not a guarantee or even an indicator of security. This is true. > For sensitive governmental and corporate use, open source solutions are often dismissed outright." But this is a false argument. Open source solutions aren't dismissed because they are open source per se, but because they generally lack predictable longer-term support.
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/inse…
> I am under the impression iMessage is pretty secure Why's that? (I'm asking seriously, because I don't understand how people get this impression.) iMessage has some very fundamental design flaws that led to this attack: https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-o... The attack is not super-spectacular, but the more worrying thing is that the design is not sound. They use an ad-hoc crypto constructi…
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Sure, Situation: Us "techies" know or easily can learn how to set up encryption and protect ourselves, the general public will not. Everyone needs encryption but most will only use it if: -their friends are using it -it is so easy a cave man can do it -it is beautiful Complication: Current products are hard to use and are built for hackers. Encryption products need to build in vitality and understand the use cases of…
Have you looked at what Pretty Easy Privacy is doing? https://www.prettyeasyprivacy.com/ They have iOS and Android clients, along with a subscription available for Outlook (Windows), and planned desktop versions for Apple Mail, Thunderbird and Web Browsers (Safari, Mozilla, Chrome and IE).
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Have you looked at what Pretty Easy Privacy is doing? https://www.prettyeasyprivacy.com/ They have iOS and Android clients, along with a subscription available for Outlook (Windows), and planned desktop versions for Apple Mail, Thunderbird and Web Browsers (Safari, Mozilla, Chrome and IE).
It seems they only have an outlook plugin. I can't find their mobile apps.