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SMSSecure Build Status

SMSSecure is an SMS/MMS application that allows you to protect your privacy while communicating with friends.

Using SMSSecure, you can send SMS messages and share media or attachments with complete privacy.

Features:

  • Easy. SMSSecure works like any other SMS application. There's nothing to sign up for and no new service your friends need to join.
  • Reliable. SMSSecure communicates using encrypted SMS messages. No servers or internet connection required.
  • Private. SMSSecure uses the TextSecure encryption protocol to provide privacy for every message, every time.
  • Safe. All messages are encrypted locally, so if your phone is lost or stolen, your messages are protected.
  • Open Source. SMSSecure is Free and Open Source, enabling anyone to verify its security by auditing the code.

Project goals

This is a fork of TextSecure that aims to keep the SMS encryption that TextSecure removed for a variety of reasons.

SMSSecure focuses on SMS and MMS. This fork aims to:

  • Keep SMS/MMS encryption
  • Drop Google services dependencies (push messages are not available in SMSSecure)
  • Integrate upstream bugfixes and patches from TextSecure

Migrating from TextSecure to SMSSecure

  • In TextSecure, export a plaintext backup. Warning: the backup will not be encrypted.
  • Install SMSSecure.
  • In SMSSecure, import the plaintext backup (this will import the TextSecure backup if no SMSSecure backup is found).
  • If TextSecure v2.6.4 or earlier is installed, update or uninstall it so it doesn't conflict (can cause errors with key exchanges).
  • Enjoy SMSSecure!

Note: You will have to start new secured sessions with your contacts.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to contribute code, translations, or bug reports.

Instructions on how to setup a development environment and build SMSSecure can be found in BUILDING.md.

Help

Documentation

Looking for documentation? Check out the wiki of the original project:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki

Chat

Have a question? Want to help out? Join our IRC channel: #SMSSecure on Freenode or follow @SMSSecure_ on Twitter.

Legal

Cryptography Notice

This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See http://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.

License

Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html