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Tex – The most secure messaging app

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2 pointsalexheikel6 comments

One wonders what Donald Knuth is going to have to say about this.

Probably he will like ;)

Zero mention of cryptography on their blog - yikes!

Hi! yes we have a regular encryption in our messages, but the thing is not about break or not the encryption... if someone wanna do it it can broke anything (iphone-fbi)

With tex we care about regular users that need secure conversation with friends and family... if you wanna tell a secret, something that bother you or whatever you talk with friends and family every day in person and maybe you dont want to tell them in a message because he will have your conversation always in his phone and can show anyone... or if the other people is with someone it can show it the conversation immediately....

So tex is a message app that give that privacy you have when you are talking face to face to another person... just the 2 know who they are... and all that you say... it disappears...

You really, really, really should be honest with what kind of security it provides. It's fine if it's not designed to keep the FBI away from my cookie recipes, but be upfront about it.

What encryption do you use? Where are the messages stored?

Hi, will try to explain everything we´ve done, and just to be clear, we started working on the privacy of the users so both sides are protected, and the optimal encryption we want to accomplish is still in process...

We use AES with a static key We never send the user phone number and neither we have it, instead we send a hash.

Even if someone decrypt the message you cant relate to a number or someone cause we don´t have your identity.

Messages are not stored, at the moment they are delivered on the phone its not anymore in our server...

Of course we heard suggestions that can improve the service

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