Matrix and Riot confirmed as the basis for French State's Secure Instant Messenger app to replace WhatsApp and Telegram messengers
From Matrix's announcement: "We’re incredibly excited that the Government of France has confirmed it is in the process of deploying a huge private federation of Matrix homeservers spanning the whole government, and developing a fork of Riot.im for use as their official secure communications client! The goal is to replace usage of WhatsApp or Telegram for official purposes."
"It’s a unbelievably wonderful situation that we’re living in a world where governments genuinely care about openness, open source and open-standard based communications – and Matrix’s decentralisation and end-to-end encryption is a perfect fit for intra- and inter-governmental communication. Congratulations to France for going decentralised and supporting FOSS! We understand the whole project is going to be released entirely open source (other than the operational bits) – development is well under way and an early proof of concept is already circulating within various government entities."
And from the English translation of the French announcement: "By the summer of 2018, the French State will have its own instant messenger, an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram."
"It will guarantee secure, end-to-end encrypted conversations without degradation of the user experience. It will be compatible with any mobile device or desktop, state or personal. In fact until now the installation of applications like WhatsApp or Telegram was not possible on professional mobile phones, which hindered easy sharing of information and documents."
"Led by the Interministerial Department of State Digital, Information and Communication Systems (DINSIC), the project is receiving contributions from the National Agency for Information System Security (ANSSI), the IT Directorship (DSI) of the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs."
"The tool developed is based on open source software (Riot) that implements an open standard (Matrix). Powered by a Franco-British startup (New Vector), and benefiting from many contributions, this communication standard has already caught the attention of other states such as the Netherlands and Canada, with whom DINSIC collaborates closely."
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Matrix and Riot confirmed as the basis for France’s Secure Instant Messenger app | Matrix.org Hi folks,. We’re incredibly excited that the Government of France has confirmed it is in the process of deploying a huge private federation of Matrix homeservers spanning the whole government, and developing a fork of Riot.im for use as their official secure communications client! The goal is to replace … |