Their clients are open source, unless you are worried about the NSA being better at decryption than is currently thought possible, the only information you are giving is encrypted traffic, who you are, who you sent a message to, and if their press release are anything to go by, they are trying to muddy the waters of the identification part with moving away from phone # account creation. I’m also a proponent of xmpp for a similar reason, and I think that xmpp is the better protocol, but signal has more concessions to non techies
There’s also Matrix, but it kinda sucks. (We have both it and XMPP.) It handles encryption key management infinitely better than XMPP though.
(Haven’t used Deltachat.)
(If you’re selfhosting or trust your server, and the people you’re talking with are selfhosting or trust their server and you trust their server, you probably don’t need end to end encryption and XMPP without E2EE will work fine.)
Signal always sounded too good to be true. I won’t be shocked to learn it’s an NSA front I promise.
Their clients are open source, unless you are worried about the NSA being better at decryption than is currently thought possible, the only information you are giving is encrypted traffic, who you are, who you sent a message to, and if their press release are anything to go by, they are trying to muddy the waters of the identification part with moving away from phone # account creation. I’m also a proponent of xmpp for a similar reason, and I think that xmpp is the better protocol, but signal has more concessions to non techies
Deltachat and Jabber/XMPP are good decentralized/federated alternatives to Signal.
There’s also Matrix, but it kinda sucks. (We have both it and XMPP.) It handles encryption key management infinitely better than XMPP though.
(Haven’t used Deltachat.)
(If you’re selfhosting or trust your server, and the people you’re talking with are selfhosting or trust their server and you trust their server, you probably don’t need end to end encryption and XMPP without E2EE will work fine.)
– Frost