At Open WhisperSystems, we’re working to both advance the state of the art for secure communication and also reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication methods that are as easy and reliable to use as making a normal phone call or sending a normal text message.
在 Open WhisperSystem,我们正在为加密技术的优化提升和普通用户使用时的便捷性而努力。我们希望每个人都能获得先进的加密通讯方式,就像我们平时打电话或发短信那样,既简单又可靠。
With these goals in mind, we’ve been working with CyanogenMod over the past few months. CyanogenMod is an open source aftermarket Android firmware distribution with ten million users and ~20k installs a day. Their rapid growth is beginning to rival Microsoft for the third largest smartphone OS distribution.
带着这些目标,我们在过去几个月里与CyanogenMod团队一起合作。CM是一家开源的Android系统固件开发商,目前已有千万级的用户,且每天都有约2万新增安装用户。CM的快速成长,都已经快赶上微软这个第3大智能系统开发商了。
As of today, the TextSecure protocol will begin shipping as part of the CyanogenMod OS-level SMS provider, in an effort to provide completely transparent end-to-end text message encryption between all of their users.
今天,TextSecure协议将作为CM系统级SMS应用的一部分,向所有CM用户提供完全透明的,端到端的SMS信息加密。
Integration
We’ve modified the Cyanogen SMS/MMS provider to speak the TextSecure protocol. If an outgoing SMS message is addressed to another CyanogenMod or TextSecure user, it will be transparently encrypted and sent over the data channel as a push message to the receiving device. That device will then decrypt the message and deliver it to the system as a normal incoming SMS. Continue reading »