According to the study of the EFF body, most securemessaging services are not well-known!
The contents of SMS and messages exchanged viamessaging services remain confidential? With therevelations of Edward Snowden and recent more100,000 photos flights that transited throughSnapchat, the public can ask the question.
The American Foundation Electronic FrontierFoundation (EFF), which defends freedom of expressionon the internet, wanted to make a State of the art. Shehas just published the results of its first study whichfocused on 39 messaging services.
The EFF has studied 7 criteria: the contents areencrypted when they are transferred? Are they so theprovider can not read? Is it possible to verify theidentity of the contacts? Are old messages safe if theidentifiers are stolen? Is the source code open toindependent scrutiny? Is the concept of securityproperly documented? Has the code been checked?
With these criteria, 6 services are a perfects and proveto be very secure: ChatSecure/Orbot, CryptoCat,Signal/RedPhone, Silent Phone, Silent Text andTextSecure</gras>. With a total of 6 criteria on 7, wefind: Jitsi/Ostel, Mailvelope, Adium, Pidgin, RetroShareand Subrosa.
The messaging services that are at the top are not partof the best-known, but are more secure. Among theservices of the leading companies, Apple is in the leadwith iMessage and FaceTime, which meet 5 criteria on 7, but cannot verify the identity of the contacts anddon't have a code open to review.
After the scandal of the flight of photos of celebritieswho questioned the reliability of the security offered byApple, this study is rather favourable, even if others dobetter.
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