TextSecure

[LeopardMember]

@landroni
Thanks. I hope for them to figure it out soon. 🙂

[baggypantsMember]

Recently British newspaper The Guardian have revealed that Whisper Systems are tracking it’s users even thought they’ve requested not to be.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-revealed-whisper-app-tracking-users

While I don’t think this necissarily applies to TextSecure I believe this should be taken into consideration if F-Droid are considering distributing binaries.

[98tMember]

Whisper and Open WhisperSystems are wholly unrelated entities.

The company that make the Whisper app were the ones implicated, Open WhisperSystems was not involved at all.

[optimumproMember]

OK, guys. If you look at my posts in this thread, you will know that I have been heavily criticizing Textsecure/Whisper System/Moxie for going with proprietary Google and removing security features, such as the ability of the user to generate a new key. However, WhisperText LLC out of California has nothing to do with Whisper System that does Textsecure. Those are totally different entities.

[baggypantsMember]

Sorry!

[pejakmMember]

https://my.owndrive.com/public.php?service=files&t=38ac4c1603600cfef43b778bfb50f6fe (6,0 MiB)

Version 2.2.0 @ 4cab657

Signed with ZipSigner’s testkey
Built with DISABLE_GCM = true (disables check for GCM and uses WebSockets all the time)
Patches: #1653, #1724, #1947, #1960, #1983, #1984, #1985 and #2008.

SHA256 sums:

85f05030f0c15f5a2f146b4d07dfcb16525d2e6bb738127b2a01432c5aa0dc62  sums.sha256
6772ff6cb79ca4ff28cae79fbea711191ec2803329d432a50c9433373cc475dc  TextSecure-nogcm-patched.apk
88e9ceae634e6fb42fd0ce90977cddb5a015f9dbf334272903fab375106ab821  TextSecure-nogcm-patched-unsigned.apk

[ganomiMember]

Hi pejakm,

thank you for your effort! i have testet the websocket version for the last week and my only concern is battery usage. This version of TextSecure seems to be responsible for 50% battery loss in about 6 hours whithout doing anything over night. I see many bam_dmux_wakelocks which are connected to network access. also in comparison to whatsapp this version of textsecure has more than double as many wakelocks as whatsapp.

Just wanted to report my experince. Still thank you!

[zikalifyMember]

Pejakm could you setup a repo so i can keep up to latest version until it gets added into fdroid main?

[catchycontagMember]

Any news on this?

[pejakmMember]

@catchycontag: Follow this PR for latest development: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/pull/1960

@zikalify: Would love to, but moxie specifically asked me not to distribute binaries, sorry.

[MzeeMember]

Hi guys,
I’m new to F-Droid and REALLY would love to see TextSecure on this platform. As I didn’t read the whole thread, just two quick questions:

1.) Are there any news regarding the current status?
2.) Could the issues, which prevented TextSecure from being available on F-Droid, be resolved?

[krtModerator]

It’s not that simple, basically refer to my posting in https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/redphone-and-textsecure/

[optimumproMember]

A little update on Textsecure:

There was a major vulnerability found last October-November. And Moxie’s response (not surprisingly) – fixing “feels pretty cumbersome” and “I dunno.”

Also, Open Whisper System is now accepted into the family of such a bastion of privacy, as Facebook (kids love it, NSA approves). So, if you had any doubt about this app before, now you can sleep well at night (sarcasm).

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001029.html

https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001030.html

[nexus-123Member]

TextSecure is a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.

TextSecure uses your phone’s data connection (WiFi/3G/4G) to communicate securely, optionally supports plain SMS/MMS to function as a unified messenger, and can also encrypt the stored messages on your phone.

Currently available on the Play store.

github: https://github.com/whispersystems/textsecure
license: GNU 3 https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/blob/master/LICENSE

[krtModerator]

See https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/textsecure/ , https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/redphone-and-textsecure/ and https://f-droid.org/forums/topic/whispersystems-textsecure-redphone/ .

Move to submission held, merging threads.

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