SimpleX Chat – the private messenger without any user IDs (not even random numbers) – v5.3 is released - with a new desktop app, local files encryption and many other improvements.

Hello all!

Happy to bring you this update - desktop app is a huge new for us. Right now it requires a separate profile, v5.4 will allow using mobile profiles from desktop as remote controller, without affecting security of e2e encryption or privacy of connections.

Files were always sent e2e encrypted, and now they are also encrypted in the storage (except videos for now), with forward secrecy - each file is encrypted with it's own key, and once the message …

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