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The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interoperable encryption between different platform providers for the first time.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Will UK netizens able to use it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Good question

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

it depends on your carrier

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So this solves the, very american, green bouble problem?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago

It solves encrypted RCS being a Google extension. Hooray for standards.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

As in group texts having shitty image quality: that's already solved by their current RCS implementation. This just makes it possible for the spec to support encryption (which Apple may still choose not to do).

As in blue bubbles being a status symbol: no.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any open source app on android that supports rcs?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago