Line and Telegram have managed to take a step forward to offer greater security and privacy to users with those updates and format in which end-to-end encryption is one of its basic functions. This end-to-end encryption was one of the greatest features that could be accessed in Line and which we already talked about at the time appropriately as one of those functionalities that any user could already access from the aforementioned Telegram, without a doubt one of those that professes the greatest love for privacy on Android.
Open Whispers Systems is the development team responsible for launching Signal today, a new app that advocates for safety and that she has been sponsored by Edward Snowden. An app that comes from TextSecure, and that is the continuation of this same in a kind of fusion, that manages to gather more and more users in one that manages to make things very clear when it comes to privacy and security.
Privacy and security first
Signal has been already hanging around mobile devices for a while now. It was right on iOS where its first version was released for the promise that it would arrive soon on Android. That soon has become a few months, but at least, the wait is over and now we can agree to keep our messages private to take advantage of the same in this good messaging application.
To begin to reel off a bit what the app is, you have to know that Signal is the combination of two existing apps as they are Textsecure and Redphone. Both offer private connections for text messages and voice calls respectively.
As we can find out how difficult the messaging apps sector is, that these two apps have been merged into one is very interesting, at least so as not to make the present dizzy and to be able to offer more from an application. This will also make it easier for developers to focus on nothing more than a single application.
End-to-end encryption
Signal offers end-to-end encryption as its main quality for messages and calls. This means that neither Whispter Systems nor anyone else will be able to dive through these calls and messages to find out their content. At the same time, Signal offers a ease of use by using the owner's numbers and your address book stored on the phone itself, eliminating the need for accounts and logins that can potentially be "hacked" in one fell swoop.
As the Signal app itself begins to be deployed in the Play Store, those users who have TextSecure and Redphone installed will be notified of the expected changes. Ultimately it means that the TextSecure app will be automatically updated to Signal, while those with Redphone will be advised to install the new Signal app.
One of the virtues of Signal that is a open source application, this allows anyone to step into that open source to have a look, as well as offering an open-minded view for anyone to see their real intentions.
Signal is in itself a very good application that offers us some very clear qualities such as the urge for security. The only thing that will happen to you, when you install it, is that the list of contacts that have it will be very short or null. Something that these new apps have to face and that means that they are forgotten or an app that finally begins to have its great reception. In regards to its visual style, it is very Material Design and the rest of apps such as Telegram and WhatsApp, so you will feel at home.
So these next days and weeks will be of great importance for you start to spread the word and more users download it, so that they can communicate with their contacts. Otherwise, it will be a very special app, but it will always stay that way, since if you can't communicate with anyone, it doesn't have its reason for being at all.
