It's pretty trivial to create an encrypted app: put together a simple custom android app that uses open source openssl libs for messaging directly between phones/clients.
>nothing stops you from having a "pre-government intervention" version
Don't neglect to consider surreptitious intervention. You're not going to see a `dhs/libressl` fork on github. We tried that with the NSA->NIST flow, and it was outed. New flaws will be injected by some cryptographer being run by clandestine services.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 14.8 ms ] threadThere will be no way to stop this.
Compromising OpenSSL won't break LibreSSL, and nothing stops you from having a "pre-government intervention" version of either of them.
There is definitely no way to stop this, and government intervention only harms honest people.
Don't neglect to consider surreptitious intervention. You're not going to see a `dhs/libressl` fork on github. We tried that with the NSA->NIST flow, and it was outed. New flaws will be injected by some cryptographer being run by clandestine services.