add support for textsecure

[pravi]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextSecure It would be really awesome to connect with best Free Software text messaging software out there.

[aesedepece]

@unknowndevice and @garrettr are also interested in this.

[Zeriuno]

It would be really great.

[pravi]

Currently whatsapp is the only option available on Firefox os to use data connection as a cheaper text messaging alternative. I don't want to lose my privacy using whatsapp. Jabber/xmpp is a good option, but unfortunately the convenience of identifying contacts with their phone number is missing here. Plus it cannot really work asynchronously like whatsapp. Being a free software community caring about freedoms and privacy makes our responsibility to respond to this situation even higher. Even if I ask my contacts to use xmpp it cannot be a drop in replacement to whatsapp. Adding textsecure support will bridge a large and critical vaccuum in Firefox os. I hope this request will be considered with the importance this deserves. Cyonegen mod has already included textsecure as default. It is a good opportunity for loqui im to show Firefox is community's commitment to freedom and privacy by including text secure support in loqui im, possibly making it as default text messaging app like cyanogen mod.

[pravi]

I feel strongly about this feature, I'm willing to run a crowd funding campaign to get this feature built. I was part of savepoddery.com campaign.

If we can find someone to work on this feature and get an estimate of time and effort required, we can start raising money to fund someone full time.

[codedust]

A JavaScript implementation of Textsecure is currently being worked on (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser). We should definitly wait until it gets more stable and is fully audited. Mainwhile I will do some testing on Firefox OS.

[aesedepece]

👍

[nicokant]

Hi, are there some news about this issue?

[aesedepece]

The Yowsup project already have it working. We will use it as reference, but there are a few required libraries that need to be ported yet to Javascript.

[codedust]

The guys building the Textsecure browser extension have separated the crypto part of the extension from the UI stuff last week. The best stating point for an implementation would probably be WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/libtextsecure.