NSA-resistant Android App 'Burns' Sensitive Messages

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Phil Zimmermann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann)'s Silent Circle, which halted its secure mail service (http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/08/09/1228255/silent-circle-follows-lavabit-by-closing-encrypted-e-mail-service) shortly after Lavabit (http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/08/08/1956215/encrypted-email-provider-lavabit-shuts-down-blames-us-govt), has released a messaging application for Android devices 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 keeps the keys used to encrypt and decrypt content on the user's device (http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/525437/nsa-resistant_android_application_burns_sensitive_mess ages/), which protects the company from law enforcement requests for the keys."Seems similar to pieces of the Guardian Project (https://guardianproject.info/).

http://it.slashdot.org/story/13/09/04/1416258/nsa-resistant-android-app-burns-sensitive-messages