Users simply want to download an app, set it up, and quickly being messaging, which isn't how end-to-end encryption apps are typically designed. "We've done this to eliminate common problems in traditional messaging like stale sessions or half-open sessions, and weird things where people have to reset things, or they get gibberish or whatever."Īs Marlinspike said, the team designed V2 so that it was as "low friction" or easy to use as iMessage or WhatsApp. "We've managed to take the desirable properties of perfect forward secrecy and deniability from protocols like OTR and translate it into this asynchronous environment," said Marlinspike of the new encryption behind TextSecure.
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