Always Secure Messaging

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		+	*Blackberry Messenger (BBM)
		+	*WhatsApp
		+	*Facebook Messenger
		+	*Apple iMessage
		+	*Google+ Messenger
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Revision as of 22:59, 12 July 2012

Always Secure Messaging ("AweSoMe") is a collaborative effort to build interoperable, open-source, secure messaging applications, that work from mobile to mobile, as well as mobile to web. In particular, the goal is to create an extremely usable and high quality experience, that simultaneously supports one-to-one and one-to-many (group) end-to-end secure messaging communications.

Overall, we want to promote messaging tools and the projects behind them taht are truly awesome, and willing to collaborate in an awesome manner. Additionally, we seek to aid users who care about, or absolutely require, secure and private messaging, by providing with a simple labeling of "AWESOME" or "NOT AWESOME".

The basic principles below guide our efforts:

1. We believe in Security by Default, Privacy by Design
2. We believe in protocols, not products.
3. We believe in partnerships, not proprietary fiefdoms.
4. We believe in building a community of collaborators, not a cacophony of criticism and unnecessary competition.
5. We believe in practical solutions to perilous problems.

Contents 1 Founding Members & Apps 2 Additional Projects We Hope Will Join Us 3 Apps that are NOT Awesome 4 Project Links 5 Existing Standards 6 User Expectations

Founding Members & Apps

• ChatSecure for iOS https://chatsecure.org/
• Crypto.cat (Web) https://crypto.cat
• Guardian Project: Gibberbot for Android https://guardianproject.info/apps/gibber

Additional Projects We Hope Will Join Us

• Pidgin (Windows / Linux IM)
• Adium (Mac OS)
• Silent Circle (multi-app secure mobile service)
• TextSecure (Android SMS OTR)

Apps that are NOT Awesome

• Blackberry Messenger (BBM)
• WhatsApp
• Facebook Messenger
• Apple iMessage
• Google+ Messenger

Project Links

• Secure Mobile Design Wiki https://guardianproject.mybalsamiq.com/projects/securemobilemessaging/grid
• Mobile Partnership Announcement https://guardianproject.info/2012/06/08/a-partnership-for-open-secure-mobile-messaging-between-ios-and-android/

Existing Standards

• XMPP http://xmpp.org/
• XEP-0035: SSL/TLS Integration http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0035.html
• Off-the-Record Messaging: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
• XEP-0198: Stream Management http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0198.html
• XEP-0184: Message Delivery Receipts http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0184.html
• MultiParty OTR (mpOTR) https://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat/wiki/mpOTR-Specification

User Expectations

• Verifiable end-to-end encryption
• Ability to control local storage, logging
• Message queuing and delivery when out of coverage, or in spotty coverage
• Always on / Start on boot
• Ability to manage buddies, contacts, groups, identities
• Group Messaging