Siimteller

Servers ARE outside of the US. All in EU.

Timed coming to groups in couple of weeks.

Documentation is also getting a refresh in 2 weeks.

Correct, built with Electron like our Windows and macOS apps. Glad you're enjoying it.

Possible reason: https://medium.com/@wireapp/axolotl-and-proteus-788519b186a7...

VC backed (Iconical, Skype co-founder Janus Friis who's involved in product dev), premium features + platform play targeting enterprise will monetize.

https://github.com/wireapp/wire#proteuscryptobox for info on Proteus/Cryptobox that Wire uses.

Give it another try in a day or two (we're close to a small performance release). Browser based encryption has performance issues but at least now we're showing the sent message immediately (in grey while it's sending, in black when sent).

And video calls :) (Sorry, couldn't resist, I work at Wire)

Wire offers APK download from wire.com/download and working on making notifications work without Google too.

We've solved the multi device issue at Wire (wire.com). Causes some challenges - larger payload, not super fast performance in browsers once you hit certain level of connections and messages, but very, very usable.

wire.com/privacy for security whitepaper.

Wire is VC funded by Iconical/Janus Friis (Skype co-founder who is also the co-founder of Wire) and will monetize with premium features. Can't share more at this point, I'm afraid.

Some of the "basic" stuff is actually surprisingly complex to do without compromising some other aspect IF we at Wire were to stick to always-E2EE-everything mantra. Case in point - delivery notifications. We're actually looking into them now.

Thanks, nothing critical but we'll clear this up.

Darn autocorrect. That's Github, of course.

We had this, was confusing UX. Considering bringing it back.

All servers in the EU, the US connections you see are to proxies we use for better performance. Nothing stored there and chat contents E2EE, of course.

Wire doesn't have group video or screen sharing yet (although 1:1 screen sharing is not far off).

There's no not API available. We've been experimenting with a few internal bots (Otto is the most prominent) but that's the extent of it for now.

No. No plans to offer that at the moment.

We've actually nicely accelerated user growth this year. Going the OS route was always the plan, especially given the target audience of hacktavists, human rights organizations, journalists. Open source is tablestakes to be taken seriously. It's also just one of the steps towards more transparency.

It's all on GuyHub. Our windows client is webapp in Electron wrapper so that's what you're looking for.

Weird, we'll check it out. Thanks for pointing it out.

We have a small office in Zug, main dev center in Berlin and a few people here and there around the globe.

Alan is originally from Croatia.

Compress video before sending is there on mobile (at least on iOS, I need to double check Android, don't have that handy right now).

Alex Stamos should check out https://wire.com (full disclosure: I work there)

• E2EE by default, in groups too

• Has solved the multi device, sync problem

• Has webapp

• Fingerprinting of all devices

• Does not sacrifice features for security - voice, video, media

• Crypto and comms protocols open source https://github.com/wireapp

• Privacy and security whitepaper https://wire.com/privacy

-Messages stored locally use the device encryption/OS-level protection

-Not included in backups

-Can be deleted either manually (per message/per chat) or altogether by uninstalling

1. End-to-end using Proteus which is inspired by Axolotl (now Signal). Whitepaper available (wire.com/privacy), independent security review underway). Right now only crypto/comms part open source but there will be more news in this.

2. It's similar. Visually distinct the UX is close enough to what people are used to from other IM apps, I would say.

3. Not. We've experimented with this internally but so far have not decided to release ephemeral aspect to public. Not enough demand. As someone else commented - you can delete content from your devices (syned across if you're logged in from more than one), but content will remain on other people's devices.

That was true when Wire launched in December 2014 but not any more.

On March 10, 2016 Wire rolled out end-to-end encryption and from that on everything (chat, photos, files, video messages, all calls) are end-to-end encrypted. More + security whitepaper at wire.com/privacy

All crypto is open sourced.

https://app.wire.com offers full functionality on Linux.

That tweet you link to is over a year old. Wire is E2EE since March 2016. https://wire.com/privacy has security and privacy whitepapers.

PS. I work at Wire.

Safari lacks WebRTC support in a manner that would play nice with Wire features. Thus no support for now.

Video calls are only 1:1