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NSA-resistant Android app encrypts and erases sensitive messages

2013-09-04 14:00:50| InfoWorld: Top News

Silent Circle, a company specializing in encrypted communications, released a messaging application for Android devices on Wednesday that encrypts and securely erases messages and files. The application, called Silent Text, lets users specify a time period for which the receiver can view a message before it is erased. It also keep the keys used to encrypt and decrypt content on the user's device, which protects the company from law enforcement requests for the keys.

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