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![The new GSMA specifications for RCS include E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security [MLS] protocol via what's called the Rich Communication Services [RCS] Universal Profile 3.0.
"The new specifications define how to apply MLS within the context of RCS," Tom Van Pelt, technical director of GSMA, said. "These procedures ensure that messages and other content such as files remain confidential and secure as they travel between clients."
<https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/rcs-encryption-a-leap-towards-secure-and-interoperable-messaging/>
This also means that RCS will be the first "large-scale messaging service" to have support for interoperable E2EE between different client implementations from different providers in the near future.
The development comes nearly six months after the GSMA said it was working towards implementing end-to-end encryption [E2EE] to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. The move followed Apple's decision to roll out support for RCS in its own Messages app with iOS 18.
Google said, "We've always been committed to providing a secure messaging experience, and Google Messages users have had end-to-end encrypted [E2EE] RCS messaging for years. We're excited to have this updated specification from GSMA and work as quickly as possible with the mobile ecosystem to implement and extend this important user protection to cross-platform RCS messaging."](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/194/978/375/605/770/original/ae19ccf056d1258e.jpeg "The new GSMA specifications for RCS include E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security [MLS] protocol via what's called the Rich Communication Services [RCS] Universal Profile 3.0.
\"The new specifications define how to apply MLS within the context of RCS,\" Tom Van Pelt, technical director of GSMA, said. \"These procedures ensure that messages and other content such as files remain confidential and secure as they travel between clients.\"
<https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/article/rcs-encryption-a-leap-towards-secure-and-interoperable-messaging/>
This also means that RCS will be the first \"large-scale messaging service\" to have support for interoperable E2EE between different client implementations from different providers in the near future.
The development comes nearly six months after the GSMA said it was working towards implementing end-to-end encryption [E2EE] to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. The move followed Apple's decision to roll out support for RCS in its own Messages app with iOS 18.
Google said, \"We've always been committed to providing a secure messaging experience, and Google Messages users have had end-to-end encrypted [E2EE] RCS messaging for years. We're excited to have this updated specification from GSMA and work as quickly as possible with the mobile ecosystem to implement and extend this important user protection to cross-platform RCS messaging.\"")
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![The fediverse today includes apps like decentralized X rival Mastodon, Instagram alternative Pixelfed, an open YouTube competitor PeerTube and others. These “federated” services are powered by a protocol called ActivityPub, which allows for decentralized social networking.
As users began to shift away from centralized social media apps owned by billionaires like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s Elon Musk, the ActivityPub protocol has been adopted by a wider range of software applications and services. This includes the ActivityPub integrations enabled by WordPress [and WordPress.com], Flipboard, Medium and even Meta itself with its Instagram Threads app. Substack competitor Ghost is working to federate as well.
With NodeBB’s joining, forum operators will now also have the option to join the decentralized social web, too.
Going forward, any new forums created with NodeBB will federate with the wider open social web automatically. However, existing customers will have the option to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-powered software, like Mastodon.
NodeBB is open source software, they don’t have numbers on usage. [Plus, they try not to track that information for privacy reasons.] However, you can get a sense of the rough count by viewing the download counts for the default NodeBB theme. Though not a direct translation to the number of NodeBB installs, the project was downloaded 4,582 times at week.](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/113/945/662/109/026/532/original/2d45094979de3016.jpeg "The fediverse today includes apps like decentralized X rival Mastodon, Instagram alternative Pixelfed, an open YouTube competitor PeerTube and others. These “federated” services are powered by a protocol called ActivityPub, which allows for decentralized social networking.
As users began to shift away from centralized social media apps owned by billionaires like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and X’s Elon Musk, the ActivityPub protocol has been adopted by a wider range of software applications and services. This includes the ActivityPub integrations enabled by WordPress [and WordPress.com], Flipboard, Medium and even Meta itself with its Instagram Threads app. Substack competitor Ghost is working to federate as well.
With NodeBB’s joining, forum operators will now also have the option to join the decentralized social web, too.
Going forward, any new forums created with NodeBB will federate with the wider open social web automatically. However, existing customers will have the option to interact with other NodeBB forums and any other ActivityPub-powered software, like Mastodon.
NodeBB is open source software, they don’t have numbers on usage. [Plus, they try not to track that information for privacy reasons.] However, you can get a sense of the rough count by viewing the download counts for the default NodeBB theme. Though not a direct translation to the number of NodeBB installs, the project was downloaded 4,582 times at week.")
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