Proton Chat - Messaging app
Let's make it in some math style:
ProtonMail : Gmail = ProtonChat : Hangouts
:)
Secure private chat same principle of secure email, but applied to chats.
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Joel Dunn commented
Need to be able to chat similar to Google Hangouts with other proton mail account holders
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Alex commented
Would love to see XMPP supported. It's one of the main reasons I, and probably many others, have not completely migrated over from services such as riseup.
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joe commented
please make this happen......
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Chris commented
Guys.. You're thinking that the chat will have to be in ProtonMail. They can separate it into a seperate app/website like they did ProtonVPN! You don't have to use ProtonVPN if you don't want to! It would be great to have a secure, encrypted messaging platform. It doesn't need any of the fluff that other messaging/social networks have like stories etc. Just a simple contact to contact messenger. ProtonMail, if you're looking at this, contact me if you want input.
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Anonymous commented
it´s planned and you could just use signal or threema or wikr... the problem is that there are already a lot of messengers with not many people to use them. and since there are not many people on them, new people won´t use it over whatsapp. more secure messengers won´t fix that problem.
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Roger commented
Secure instant messaging between Proton Mail users only within Proton Mail or with a Smart Phone without a ton of permissions needed between Proton Mail users only.
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Ross commented
> Possibly in 2016.
Or not.
Meanwhile, users should know that there are many encrypted chat programs. Signal for mobile (free and open source and with better implementation of key exchange than WhatsApp). Check out Wire (Swiss, free and open source) as a Skype alternative.
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Anonymous commented
German government just announced to officially surveil WhatsApp. Please give us a secure messenger!!! ;-)
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Anonymous commented
End2end inscription? :P Encryption. And it's already planned.
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Solhat commented
Perfect secure Messenger with end2end inscription. Why not make 2in1: mail+chat - simple but great idea! User ID is like JID user@pmail.com or user@pm.me :) Would be awesome! Thanks!
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Ilhan commented
I would be interested in an app, which provides secure messaging between smartphone (something like a secure iMessage).
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Suzanne commented
Add a Facebook messenger style chat in which you can save them in your account or copy content of the chat.
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Therese commented
PLEASE DO THIS IT WOULD BE A GREAT ADDITION IT'S 2017 ALREADY AND THIS WOLD BE AMAZING TO HAVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Therese commented
Why should we be exlcuded from instant chat (texting) just because we don't have gmail or other services that have this feature.
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Therese commented
Why should all our friends be able to do instant chat (texting) and not us? I think we should have this feature added.
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Tom commented
I'm not sure if it makes sense for protonmail to implement this, given there are many other services targeting encrypted chat.
However, if you do want to implement a chat service, please consider using http://matrix.org/ rather than signal. Signal is great, but does not have federation. So it acts as a walled garden.
If you implement matrix, you can host your own chat servers but also then let users chat to users on other servers.
Matrix also has bridges, which allow you to connect other chat services e.g. IRC.
If you would like to see how matrix works, have a look at https://riot.im/ which implements the matrix protocol.
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Jay commented
First of all, I agree that people who don't want the feature should be able to turn it off completely and never see any trace of it. It's too easy for software to become bloated with too many "bells and whistles" and lose focus and elegance that got people to start using it when it was new.
Having said that...
I want chat added as an extension of the webmail service!
Although there are some other "private" chat services, I haven't found any that my other friends accept as readily as ProtonMail. I won't use many of them because they are not actually secure, or are run by for-profit corporations. Basically, there are few that I will use, and they are typically buggy or have immature designs. So my less-computer-literate friends won't use them.
My friends and I are all using ProtonMail and love it, and there are times when we are both online and emailing each other. It's cumbersome to send emails in both directions, and they often cross, so it's very confusing to keep a coherent conversation going. (For example, my friend might write two messages while I'm responding to an older one. Then I don't know if I should continue writing a reply, or read the new messages first. This can make a person crazy.)
In other words, the chat feature would be helpful at times when there is already an active ProtonMail email exchange going. Then it would be easy and smooth to switch over to chat.
Some people commented that they don't want ProtonMail to become another "social platform" or "social network". I don't either(!), but I'd love it if ProtonMail developed into a more capable *communication* platform.
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Louisa Sitala commented
YESSSSS!!!!! Thank you! THANK YOU!
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Anonymous commented
ProtonMail definitely NEEDS a secure chat, similar to how both gmail, yahoo, and other providers have iming/chats in their email, but a more secure version in Proton mail!
An encrypted PROTONchat where both parties would automatically go off the record and possibly even use a shared password they initially (once, not every time) set to chat would be a good idea! -
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