Re: Encryption comes to RCS at last on iPhones.

On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:20:50 +0000, Andy Burns wrote :

What's interesting though is how it will work when the Internet sucks.
 Nothing can happen until the two devices exchange the keys, right?

 Does the internet suck sufficiently to stop you logging in to amazon, that needs a key exchange ...

I'm not sure I understand the question, but I was just trying to figure out
how RCS/MLS works, in terms of what happens if one or both are offline.
But after searching for how RCS/MLS works, I found they have a queuing
mechanism, a key exchange store mechanism, & a fallback to SMS/MMS
mechanism. This, of course, is to be expected. I just didn't know it.
Now I do. (At least to a level useful to me on a flaky connection.)
Since I'm across the pond from you, I don't pay extra for anything, as we
typically get unlimited everything for about $25/month per device, so my
only need for RCS/MLS is to get clear non-blurry media from iPhones.
Personally, even as I'm a privacy guy, I don't care about encryption.
But it would be nice to be able to communicate with iPhone users.
Without having to use WhatsApp (which is better in all ways than Messages).
So I'll install an RCS/MLS capable messenger on Android when they arrive.
The problem for me is I really love the functionality of the last known
good version of PulseSMS; which doesn't support RCS.
When there's a non-Google messenger for Android that supports RCS/MLS,
that's the one I'll test out, as I've tested all the free SMS/MMS apps.