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by copper-float 43 days ago
What's a sufficiently private/secure messaging platform? Signal comes to mind, but I'm open to alternatives.
3 comments
dmos62 43 days ago
A few people gave some input on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945392

Signal and Threema seem to be known for good UX and viability as everyday messengers.

There was this table: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

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nickburns 42 days ago
Definitely Signal. It strikes the fairest balance between industry-standard end-to-end encryption ('E2EE') and usability.

Get as many of your contacts onto Signal as you can. Disable the displaying of message text within device notifications from within the Signal app settings (for both Android and iOS).

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SoftTalker 43 days ago
GPG-encrypted email.
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lxgr 43 days ago
GPG doesn't support forward secrecy, which is table stakes for encrypted messaging these days. And that's to say nothing about the slightly suboptimal usabilty...
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SoftTalker 43 days ago
True, but you're not trusting any corporation to do what they say they are doing, or not changing it out from under you. I guess you're trusting the Gnu people though.
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towers 43 days ago
Hard to convince others that are less knowledgeable and/or involved to use this over a typical mode of communication like Signal.
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