moezbhatti / qksms

The most beautiful SMS messenger for Android
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Add PGP support #1716

Open trymeouteh opened 3 years ago

trymeouteh commented 3 years ago

iOS does not allow the creation of SMS apps, but there are apps for iOS such as PGP Everywhere which allow uses to easily communicate via SMS using PGP for encryption.

I think QKSMS should consider also adding OpenPGP support by adding these features...

This way QKSMS can easily communicate with iOS users using a encryption standard that is common in email and has also been used is SMS. It is possible to use apps such as OpenKeychain on Android but this app will require you to copy the text message and paste it into the OpenKeychain to decrypt the message, since Android allows you to develop SMS apps, why not have a SMS app that does all the encryption and decryption for you within the app.

QKSMS is an amazing free and open source SMS app which can start mainstreaming PGP encryption on SMS messages.

iOS PGP Everywhere App https://www.pgpeverywhere.com/

Android OpenKeychain App https://www.openkeychain.org/

trymeouteh commented 3 years ago

Another suggestion is to integrate OpenKeychain into QKSMS to manage and encrypt/decrypt SMS messages just like how the XMPP Conversations app does not have built in PGP support but integrates OpenKeychain for OpenPGP.