SAFEmessages - World's Most Secure Communications

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A very simple but powerful app idea, a messenger on SAFE would be completely impossible to be spied on by anyone outside of the conversation. This would let people send simple messages, completely encrypted and obfuscated, to anyone else on the Network, without everything going through Google, FB, and the NSA, like today.

History

Basic communication has always been among the first ideas people have for the SAFE Network when introduced to it. There is no system today (and certainly not a whole internet) that allows people this freedom of expression, so the MaidSafe team has planned to include it in their early app examples for years. Plans for it have been explained on their website as well, just scroll down to the "Messaging" section.

Features

As explained on the website, a Messaging app would allow you to add all your contacts, and once they accept you, the accounts have a link that they can send anything across. Messages, photos, video, apps, software, entire operating systems, anything. And instead of having to wait for the whole file to send--like today--you're only really sending the encrypted metadata that tells the other person where to download it, so files of any size are sent instantly.

Launch Date

It was expected that the network would launch at the end of last year, (and this app soon after,) however an amazing new coding language came out called "Rust" that turned out to be perfect for the SAFE Network to be created with. So, the team decided to restart the whole network from scratch in Rust. This means we will have to wait a few more months to see the network or this app. Follow it on Github!