[liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure Messenger"

[Axel Simon]

In TextSecure, the password unlocks the local db of encrypted SMS messages.
Lose the password, lose the messages.

Also, the point of TextSecure is that it uses text (SMS) messages as a transport, which often work when Internet access (or even plain phone calls) do(es)n't.

axel

Wasabee <wasabee18 at gmail.com> wrote:

>hi
>
>thank for your answer. what is the role of the password? is it used to 
>access the TextSecure app? is it a shared password with the recipient?
>
>
>On 10/07/2013 15:29, Albert López wrote:
>>
>> Hello Wasabee,
>>
>> I've used TextSecure but I found that it's like sending encrypted
>SMS, 
>> therefore you have the consequent cost associated to it. I don't know
>
>> if Heml.is will be a kind of secure whatsapp or if it will have the 
>> same approach of TextSecure.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong with the SMS stuff. It was what I thought
>once 
>> I received my bill.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --search-keys EEE5A447
>> http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0xEEE5A447&op=vindex
>>
>>
>>
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>> Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 14:31:53 +0100
>> From: wasabee18 at gmail.com
>> To: liberationtech at lists.stanford.edu
>> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Heml.is - "The Beautiful & Secure
>Messenger"
>>
>> https://whispersystems.org/ already has an open-source secure 
>> messaging, voice and more.
>> Has anyone reviewed their code?
>> Does anyone use it?
>> Why not build on top of it?
>>
>>
>> On 10/07/13 14:07, Nick wrote:
>>
>>             noone said it would be closed source. That's peoples
>guess. Like, your guess, I guess.
>>
>>     According to their twitter account, the answer is "maybe":
>>     https://twitter.com/HemlisMessenger/statuses/354927721337470976
>>
>>     Peter Sunde (one of the people behind it) said "eventually", but
>>     in my experience promises like that tend to be broken:
>>     https://twitter.com/brokep/status/354608029242626048
>>
>>         and the feature 'unlocking' aspect of the project - to be
>indication of a
>>         proprietary code base.
>>
>>     Frankly I can't see how they could get the "feature unlock"
>funding
>>     stuff to work well if it's proper open source. As I'd expect
>people
>>     to fork it to remove such antifeatures. It's a pity, as several
>new
>>     funding models have been successful recently which are compatible
>with
>>     free software, but this doesn't look to be one of them.
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