Abstract
- iPhone customers will quickly be capable to ship end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to Android customers.
- That is due to the brand new RCS customary, Common Profile 3.0, which incorporates end-to-end encryption based mostly on the Messaging Layer Safety protocol.
- Apple says it’s going to embrace the brand new RCS customary in a future software program replace, however no timeline has been offered.
With iOS 18, Apple carried out RCS messaging, which permits iPhone customers to ship Android customers high-quality media, react to textual content messages, have higher group chat performance, and extra. Nevertheless, one key ingredient lacking from Apple’s implementation of RCS was end-to-end encryption (E2EE). That’s lastly about to vary.
The GSMA has introduced its newest RCS customary, Common Profile 3.0, which is able to embrace end-to-end encryption based mostly on the Messaging Layer Safety (MLS) protocol. Because of this it is going to be safer when an iPhone consumer sends an RCS textual content to an Android consumer and vice versa. This replace marks the primary time interoperable encryption will likely be enabled between completely different platform suppliers, a major milestone in cell communications.
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The brand new RCS customary is coming in a future software program replace
The brand new RCS Common Profile 3.0 will likely be rolling out to iPhone customers as a part of a future software program replace, however Apple has not but offered a timeline. The corporate has confirmed it’s within the works.
“We’ll add help for end-to-end encrypted RCS messages to iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS in future software program updates,” mentioned Apple spokesperson Shane Bauer (through The Verge).
Apple was part of creating the brand new RCS customary and labored with the GSMA (International System for Cellular Communications Affiliation) and different “cell operators, system producers, and know-how suppliers” to develop the brand new RCS Common Profile 3.0 customary.
After all, this is not the primary time iPhone customers have had end-to-end encryption for messaging. iMessage has lengthy supported it, which signifies that texting between iPhone customers has at all times been safe; it was solely with Android customers that there was a niche, which is able to quickly be closed. Google mentioned in an announcement (through The Verge) that it’ll work “as shortly as doable with the cell ecosystem to implement and lengthen this vital consumer safety to cross-platform RCS messaging.”
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