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by ukblewis 3746 days ago
Hi Dan,

I'm not using Wire yet - so I'm just quoting their marketing material - but they directly address your comments: "Wire uses open-source cryptography to encrypt all content. We made the source code for data handling available to the public under the GPL License. This means that anybody can review the source code." "Only Wire offers fully encrypted calls, video and group chats available on all your devices, on any modern platform. Unlike niche security apps we do not sacrifice usability for security — Wire is simple and straightforward to use."

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It sounds like the app itself is closed though. Skype probably used openssl (open source crypto) on Linux but that didn't make it secure.
I looked for an obvious link to the code, I must have missed this.

Thanks for pointing it out!