Wire is a communication application developed by former Skype, Apple and Microsoft employees. It is funded by Skype co-founder Janus Friis.
The application with a new update can be proud of the full encryption of all communications.
Wire is one of the many communications applications that came after Snowden's revelations of global surveillance programs, but it did not support end-to-end encryption from the beginning.
The new version promises to encrypt chat, audio and video messages, which makes it stand out from most similar services.
The protocol used by the encryption application for text and image messages is called Axolotl, is open source, and is used not only by Wire, but also by other "secure" communication applications such as Signal and Silent Phone.
Voice calls and video calls on the other hand make use of it WebRTC, and DTLS for key processes and negotiation and identity identification while using the SRTP protocol for encrypted media transfer.
The application comes complete free and the company states in its privacy policy that it does not collect sensitive data such as: “the content of your conversation ”“ the time and date of your conversations ”, and that it does not save the content of the calls.
It is available as a desktop application for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS, but also as a web service accessible from your browser. It requires an account with an email address and a password accesss.
The company operates from Switzerland, one of the most friendly countries in the world for personal data protection.
We should mention that it is a project that comes completely free of charge. This, of course, begs the question: "How do paid developers work?" All the necessary money comes from Janus Friis?
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