TextSecure to Drop Support for Encrypted SMS

Open Whisper Systems is phasing out support for encrypted SMS and MMS messages in its TextSecure messaging product. The move does not spell the end for encrypted messaging for users of the Android app, as the company plans to switch to its own transport protocol to address some of the security an...

Signal 2.0 — Free iPhone App for Encrypted Calls and Texts

An open source software group, Open Whisper Systems, has announced the release of Signal 2.0 — the second version of its free and open source messaging application for iPhone and iPad users. Signal app is specifically designed to make secure and easy-to-use encrypted voice calling. But that’s wha...

WhatsApp Adds Encryption by Default to Android App

WhatsApp, a massively popular messaging app, recently added end-to-end encryption for some mobile clients, a move that brings a high level of security to millions of users. The change is the result of a partnership with Open Whisper Systems, the secure text and mobile OS company started by securi...

Popular secure chat APP TextSecure presence of“unknown key sharing attack”vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! TextSecure is Android platform a encrypted chat APP, this free APP is designed in order to guarantee communication privacy. This APP by Open WhisperSystems developed, the code completelyopen sourcesupport end-to-end SMS encryption. Looks very safe is not? Recently, however, from Germany's Ruhr...

Researcher Found TextSecure Messenger App Vulnerable to Unknown Key-Share Attack

Do you use TextSecure Private Messenger for your private conversations? If yes, then Are you sure you are actually using a Secure messaging app? TextSecure, an Android app developed by Open WhisperSystems, is completely open-source and claims to support end-to-end encryption of text messages. The...

Signal — Open Source iPhone App to Make Free End-to-End Encrypted Voice Calls

Good News for Privacy Lovers!! An open source software group Open Whisper Systems has released the first free and Open Source phone call application for iPhone users, which is specifically designed to make secure and encrypted calls. When we talk about the privacy of our messages and voice calls,...

New Signal App Brings Encrypted Calling to iPhone

iPhone users concerned about government surveillance efforts putting unencrypted calls at risk now have a free app at their disposal that brings secure communication to the Apple phone. Open WhisperSystems, developers of RedPhone for Android, have developed a similar app for iPhone called Signal,...

TextSecure Provides Seamless Encryption for All Levels

TextSecure, the secure messaging app developed by the encrypted communication provider WhisperSystems, is no longer merely a private short messaging service SMS application. According to a blog post penned by WhisperSystems co-founder Moxie Marlinspike, TextSecure is now a private, asynchronous...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

TextSecure Integrated into CyanogenMod SMS App for Android

With the depths of domestic government surveillance still not fully realized, secure communications capabilities are at a premium, especially for the privacy conscious. Already, we’ve seen some services such as Lavabit and Silent Circle’s Silent Mail shudder operations rather than hand over...

Device-Level Encryption Comes to Android

As attacks on mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets have surged in recent months, security researchers and customers have continued to look for ways to lock down their devices and protect the data they store on them. Whisper Systems has jumped into the fray with...

Free Android encryption comes to Egypt, The revolution will be encrypted !

Free cellphone encryption is coming to Android users in Egypt courtesy of San Francisco software maker Whisper Systems. Until now, Redphone and TextSecure, voice- and text-encryption apps respectively, have generally been available in the US only. Whisper Systems has been working on making the...

This Week In Security: Privacy, RedPhone and Adobe

In case you needed any reminders that privacy is one of the more pressing problems on the Web right now, this week’s news provided plenty of them. Along with stories of Facebook’s continued privacy missteps, this week gave us the gift of Google letting users install some Google code to opt out of...

Moxie Marlinspike on RedPhone, TextSecure and Internet Privacy

Dennis Fisher talks with security researcher Moxie Marlinspike about his new startup, Whisper Systems, his RedPhone and TextSecure voice and data encryption software and the challenges of maintaining privacy in the Google Age. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Undergroun...