Security News > 2020 > May > Google may soon add end-to-end encryption for RCS

Make room, WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, Telegram and all you other end-to-end encrypted messaging services - Google's getting closer to elbowing its way onto the stage with its Google Messages.

The RCS protocol - popularly known as Chat - is the successor to SMS messaging and does what most other texting services do, but without the end-to-end encryption of apps like Signal, et al.

So close to feature-rich messaging apps, but so far away from the ability to know your messages are secured with end-to-end encryption.

The dogfood version shows that Google is considering letting users choose to allow other Android apps that have permission to see their messages also see their encrypted messages.

That's when T-Mobile and Google announced that T-Mobile subscribers now have the ability to send RCS messages to people on other phone networks - that is, as long as they're all using an Android phone with support for the new messaging standard.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/05/27/google-may-soon-add-end-to-end-encryption-for-rcs/