Google messages chats to soon have end to end encryption, all we know

Google: End-to-end encrypted RCS (Rich Communication Services) group chats are now being tested by Google and will be made available to some users in the open beta programme over the next few weeks. According to the blog post, this feature will encrypt one-on-one texts sent using Messages by Google so they are private and safe and can only be seen by the sender and receiver.

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What is RCS?

As per a Google blog post, "RCS doesn't only make texting more secure -- it makes the experience better, too," "SMS texting lacks a lot of what smartphones are capable of doing, but RCS means you can send and receive high-quality photos and videos, see real-time typing indicators and read receipts, name group conversations, add or remove contacts from group chats, and text over Wi-Fiathis list goes on," it added.

RCS, a ramped form of SMS that incorporates features like typing indicators, delivery, and read receipts, has been promoted by Google to manufacturers and carriers. Additionally, it has started campaigns to persuade Apple to use this standard in its own Messages app.

What did Google say?

According to a blog post by Neena Budhiraja, group product manager for the Messages app, "Today, all of the major mobile carriers and manufacturers have adopted RCS as the standard -- except for Apple. Apple refuses to adopt RCS and continues to rely on SMS when people with iPhones message people with Android phones, which means their texting is stuck in the 1990s."

"Hopefully, Apple can #GetTheMessage so we don't have to keep waiting to remove the whole ace green-versus-blue bubble" thing," it added.

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