It was a large maintenance burden: "It’s holding us back. Dealing with all the corner cases associated with the encrypted SMS/MMS transport prevents us from dedicating focus and attention to make the overall product…
I don't share your view. Encrypted SMS functionality was not ready for the masses with the key exchanges, meta data leakage and was source of many bugs. Now users are never confronted with keys and other scary stuff :)…
Don't forget to install Signal on iOS and Redphone/Textsecure on Android: https://whispersystems.org/
It was a large maintenance burden: "It’s holding us back. Dealing with all the corner cases associated with the encrypted SMS/MMS transport prevents us from dedicating focus and attention to make the overall product…
I don't share your view. Encrypted SMS functionality was not ready for the masses with the key exchanges, meta data leakage and was source of many bugs. Now users are never confronted with keys and other scary stuff :)…
Don't forget to install Signal on iOS and Redphone/Textsecure on Android: https://whispersystems.org/