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I had a problem where one of my contracts uninstalled Textsecure, and went back to the vanilla SMS app. Now all the messages he received from me are garbled. Somehow they need a way to disassociate phones AFTER the app has been uninstalled.

You can ask your contact to use the unregister app here https://whispersystems.org/textsecure/unregister/

Apple offer a similar tool when leaving iOS https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

This is one of the reasons why they don't do encrypted SMS anymore:

https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/

Wouldn't that be a huge security flaw? Someone with access to your phone could uninstall the app then read all the messages.

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