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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Anonymous commented
Instead of making another chat app... You could dedicate some resources to improving Signal, which I think share a lot of your driving values.
P.S. If you still plan on making a chat app/service I put forth a name: Gluon.
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Anonymous commented
Signal is a great app. Although it has the best security, its performance is not so great which I think is mostly due to financial constraints due to being free and open source.
If you want better performance WhatsApp implements Signal's e2e encryption and they have the Signal team's validation. -
Tom commented
I agree that reinventing "secure and private chat" like everyone else is a very very bad thing to do.
Matrix is already shaping up to be absolutely wonderful -- it's feature-rich, its security and privacy is legitimate, it's open-source, and it's built around bridging to other chat networks, both open and closed.
A ProtonMail Matrix homeserver, with every ProtonMail user having an account, maybe even with a Matrix client built into ProtonMail, may be sensible, but even allocating those resources instead of just _using Matrix_ seems hard to justify.
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Aniruddha commented
Right now many android apps (BookMyShow, Freecharge in India & many other payment or wallet apps) mandatorily requires the SMS permission to be allowed for their function. Otherwise they crash or may not function properly. While doing bank transaction, when user receive OTP to verify the transaction these apps read that ORP directly and complete the payment without user confimation or little confirmation (as user have 3 secs to stop from auto confirming transactionl) I would like to see a SMS managing app from Protonmail which stores SMS in kind of encrypted way so that only human user can read those SMS amd not the these app or any other program. Such app for SMS will be more privacy friendly.
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Anonymous commented
Rather than spreading the Proton team's focus between even more products, have you tried looking at Wire? (https://wire.com). It's an open source, end to end encrypted messenger app with high quality audio and video calls.
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Roger commented
encrypted chat service
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Anonymous commented
Wickr style chat function. Like Messenger and Gmail but with a self destruct option and Telegram style encryption.
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Terry commented
Chat is an extremely saturated space, and I can't imagine any reason to implement yet-another insulated chat system.
If ProtonChat were to be a Proton owned and operated matrix (https://matrix.org) server, though, there'd be a solid foundation for chat with strong privacy (like e2e encrypted rooms), and it'd mean Proton is helping an open-source effort while helping itself.
That, and matrix also provides the potential to take chat right up to audio/video calls and a Google Hangouts type featureset.
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Tyler commented
Don't reinvent the wheel... Just provide an XMPP based service with OMEMO.
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Anonymous commented
Hi, ProtonMail is a great service. Have you considered a messaging app too? ie an alternative to Whatsapp, Viber, Messenger etc which, like ProtonMail, respects an individual's privacy and has no connecting to the likes of Google and Facebook.
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Aedan commented
Oh god yes please!!
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Dooner commented
This would be totally awesome, if ever implemented. Sometimes it's easier to shoot a quick chat than email back and forth. Otherwise Protonmail is the shiiiiiznit!
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Anonymous commented
Yes please, I came here to suggest this myself. Eventually a secure chat app like FB messenger would be super sweet. I don't like how telegram/signal/etc require you to give them your phone #
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MyName commented
No need to merge Protonmail with a messenger application !
We only need a secure, quick and light email service. Not a big and slow service full of features we don't use.Regarding the messengers applications, after trying several of them (telegram, whatsapp, etc.), in my opinion, Threema is the best in term of privacy, speed, reliability, and sound quality (call). AND it can be installed on a tablet (no phone number needed!). This is a winner feature!
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? commented
There is a ‚perfect secure‘ Messenger out there already. Swiss-based and in contrast to signal completly anonymous..
please have a look at Threema. -
Rich commented
What's wrong it Signal / Telegram / Wickr, and allow ProtonMail to focus on services where there doesn't already exist a good zero knowledge service?
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Azula Marina commented
and Video Calls Too
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Justin commented
What if you merged with Signal? I know they'd have to agree but it would certainly be great to have the best encrypted messenger and the best encrypted email working together as one. All while being open-source, transparent and in the public interest. :)
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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.