SMSSecure

SMSSecure is a messaging app for simple private communication with friends to communicate securely using SMS. This is a fork of TextSecure, in which SMS encryption is not available anymore.

Goals of this fork

SMSSecure focuses on SMS. This fork aims to:

Keep SMS encryption
Drop Google services dependencies: push messages are not available in SMSSecure; if you want to keep them, SMSSecure is not for you.

Migrating from TextSecure to SMSSecure

In TextSecure, export plaintext backup. Warning: the backup will not be encrypted.
Rename TextSecurePlaintextBackup.xml to SMSSecurePlaintextBackup.xml.
Install SMSSecure.
In SMSSecure, import plaintext backup.
Enjoy SMSSecure!

Note: You will have to start new secured sessions.

Contributing Bug reports

We use GitHub for bug tracking. Please search the existing issues for your bug and create a new one if the issue is not yet tracked!

https://github.com/SMSSecure/SMSSecure/issues

Contributing Translations

We use Transifex for our translations. If you'd like to contribute, the project is here:

https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/smssecure/

Contributing Code

Instructions on how to setup your development environment and build SMSSecure can be found in BUILDING.md.

If you're new to the SMSSecure codebase, we recommend going through our issues and picking out a simple bug to fix (check the "easy" label in our issues) in order to get yourself familiar.

Help

Documentation

Looking for documentation? Check out the wiki of the original project:

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki

Chat

Have a question? Want to help out? Join our IRC channel: #SMSSecure on Freenode

Legal things

Cryptography Notice

This distribution includes cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption software, to see if this is permitted. See http://www.wassenaar.org/ for more information.

The U.S. Government Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), has classified this software as Export Commodity Control Number (ECCN) 5D002.C.1, which includes information security software using or performing cryptographic functions with asymmetric algorithms. The form and manner of this distribution makes it eligible for export under the License Exception ENC Technology Software Unrestricted (TSU) exception (see the BIS Export Administration Regulations, Section 740.13) for both object code and source code.

License

Licensed under the GPLv3: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

jpfox / SMSSecure