Silence (formerly SMSSecure) is an SMS/MMS application that allows you to protect your privacy while communicating with friends.
Using Silence, you can send SMS messages and share media or attachments with complete privacy.
Features:
- Easy. Silence works like any other SMS application. There's nothing to sign up for and no new service your friends need to join.
- Reliable. Silence communicates using encrypted SMS messages. No servers or internet connection required.
- Private. Silence uses the Axolotl encryption protocol to provide privacy for every message, every time.
- Safe. All messages are encrypted locally, so if your phone is lost or stolen, your messages are protected.
- Open Source. Silence is Free and Open Source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code.
This is a fork of TextSecure (now Signal) that aims to keep the SMS encryption that TextSecure removed for a variety of reasons.
Silence focuses on SMS and MMS. This fork aims to:
- Keep SMS/MMS encryption
- Drop Google services dependencies (push messages are not available in Silence)
- Integrate upstream bugfixes and patches from TextSecure
- In TextSecure, export a plaintext backup. Warning: the backup will not be encrypted.
- Install Silence.
- In Silence, import the plaintext backup (this will import the TextSecure backup if no Silence backup is found).
- If TextSecure v2.6.4 or earlier is installed, update or uninstall it so it doesn't conflict (can cause errors with key exchanges).
- Enjoy Silence!
Note: You will have to start new secured sessions with your contacts.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute code, translations, or bug reports.
Instructions on how to setup a development environment and build Silence can be found in BUILDING.md.
Looking for documentation? Check out the wiki of the original project:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki
Have a question? Want to help out? Join our IRC channel: #Silence on Freenode or follow @SilenceIM on Twitter.
This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See http://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.
Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html