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Skype Co-Founder Launches End-To-End Encrypted 'Wire' App (reuters.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A group of former Skype technologists, backed by the co-founder of the messaging platform, has introduced a new version of its own messaging service that promises end-to-end encryption for all conversations, including by video. Wire, a 50-person start-up mostly made up of engineers, is stepping into a global political debate over encryption that pits privacy against security advocates, epitomized by the standoff between the U.S. government and Apple. Wire, which is headquartered in Switzerland and Germany, two of the most privacy-friendly countries in the world, relays communications through its network of cloud computers where user communications are stored, in encrypted form, on their own devices. It delivers privacy protections that are always on, even when callers use multiple devices, such as a phone or desktop PC simultaneously. For voice and video calls, Wire uses the same DTLS and SRTP encryption standards found in the peer-to-peer WebRTC protocol. Rivals such as Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp or Telegram offer encryption on only parts of a message's journey or for a specific set of services, the company said. "Everything is end-to-end encrypted: That means voice and video calls, texts, pictures, graphics -- all the content you can send," Wire Executive Chairman Janus Friis told Reuters.
If it gets popular they'll just sell it out to some company that will gut the shit out of any privacy it has.
JUST LIKE SKYPE.
Go fuck yourself dude. Fooled us once already.
and we know how "secure" Skype was
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~s...
looking at the Skype binary its obvious that even MS cant see inside the box as their "enhancements" are tacked around the original encrypted binary.
just remake the original Skype like it was, ie firewall traversal, p2p, ee encryption, crystal clear audio/video oh and this time fully open source (unlike this Wire).
Oh please! Tell me you won't take a billion or two. And so what? They're making another service. If they sell it, they might make another after that, turtles all the way down. Just move to the next service they create. If I remember right, Skype encryption was difficult to break. So call this one version 2, and ignore Microsoft's version.
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