{"id":2338,"date":"2025-03-14T23:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2025-03-14T23:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:48:16","slug":"governments-wont-like-this-encrypted-messaging-between-android-and-ios-devices-coming-says-gsma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=2338","title":{"rendered":"Governments won\u2019t like this: encrypted messaging between Android and iOS devices coming, says GSMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Imagine a world of the near future where Android and Apple iOS users can message one another with the certainty that their communication is secured against eavesdropping by end-to-end encryption (E2EE).<\/p>\n<p>And it would not only be for one-to-one chats, but across large groups of employees and users, something that is impossible to guarantee today without resorting to standalone apps such as WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>These capabilities might soon be a reality, thanks to a technical specification released this week, the GSM Association\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsma.com\/newsroom\/article\/rcs-encryption-a-leap-towards-secure-and-interoperable-messaging\/\">RCS Universal Profile<\/a> version 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>In development since 2007 as a replacement for SMS, Rich Communication Services (RCS) already allows a range of features including read receipts, typing indicators, and media sharing. But E2EE security, a much more complex technical feat, has always proved elusive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world of the near future where Android and Apple iOS users can message one another with the certainty that their communication is secured against eavesdropping by end-to-end encryption (E2EE). And it would not only be for one-to-one chats, but across large groups of employees and users, something that is impossible to guarantee today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}