On 5/29/16, Mirimir <mirimir@riseup.net> wrote:
You need a telephone number to use that Whisper Systems stuff, right?
Group Silent Text/Circle/Mail/Phone, BlackPhone, used to have standalone SMS app but they dropped it. Group Whisper TextSecure/Signal, RedPhone, (to lesser degree partner WhatsApp), did the same, but SMSSecure. They have beta desktop version as chrome app. https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/904.pdf Can always use any droid apps in emulator, such as ChatSecure. And XOR modulo some printable charset any legacy SMS you care to send. A number? AFAIK, yes, presumably depending if you went opensource self path or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Limitations Phone numbers suck, which is why Pond, Ricochet, etc.
Setting up Pond servers isn't hard. A friend is working on a how-to.
But then there's the Panda exchange server :(
Mmm friends, and panda's, be seein ya soon.