What happened to Pond?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun May 29 19:51:39 PDT 2016


On 5/29/16, Mirimir <mirimir at 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.



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