EFF Publishes Secure Messaging Scorecard

[lxskllr]

In the face of widespread Internet surveillance, we need a secure and practical means of talking to each other from our phones and computers. Many companies offer “secure messaging” products—but are these systems actually secure? We decided to find out, in the first phase of a new EFF Campaign for Secure & Usable Crypto.

https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard

 

[John Connor]

Skype says encrypted so provider can't read it. I heard that M$ can read it. Or was that voice?

I had a thought. I used to use Pidgin and I know that you had to load the encryption module or something back then. Now how does end to end encryption work with someone that doesn't use Pidgin?

 

[lxskllr]

I had a thought. I used to use Pidgin and I know that you had to load the encryption module or something back then. Now how does end to end encryption work with someone that doesn't use Pidgin?

It's all open technology, so any client can be used with OffTheRecord encryption, but you still have to trust the other party, and the program they use. If the other party is using SpymasterXP, and your communication gets logged and uploaded to the NSA, it doesn't matter much that it was encrypted during transit from you to your partner.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

AKAIK, Skype can be easily monitored since they were bought and moved away from the peer to peer foundation that they started with and went to centralized servers.

Skype says encrypted so provider can't read it. I heard that M$ can read it. Or was that voice?

I had a thought. I used to use Pidgin and I know that you had to load the encryption module or something back then. Now how does end to end encryption work with someone that doesn't use Pidgin?