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@piotrv Yes, in a way it is email + pgp, but it uses AutoCrypt to do all this automatically. The Android experience is like an older WhatsApp. It's just instant messaging as we know it, yet everything is encrypted behind the curtain. If you use the default chatmail server, you literally just have to say “Yes, please let me in” in the app, and you have an account. No password, no setup, it's very user friendly.

DeltaChat doesn't have “typing notifications”, of course, but it does have “recepient has read my message” and emoji reactions.

Be my friend. :)

@kseistrup Yes, I am also looking into DeltaChat. SimpleX claims low latency, using own protocol over TLS and I can setup my own server. Reading about DeltaChat, it seems like just email + PGP encryption. The latter I have been advocating for ages to my friends to use, but nobody is willing to make the effort :-( I have to read more about DeltaChat, so my judgement might be totally wrong. I will try DeltaChat in the coming days and use your QR code. I have no friends ;-) BTW Fabio Loli seems to be the current maintainer of this package, so at least someone is looking after it :-)

@piotrv, I was very entusiatic about SimpleX for years. However, I have found it to be too unreliable in its deliverance of messages. Very often (← read: too often to my liking) it happens that a message doesn't get delivered. So I found myself keeping another channel (other app/protocol, same user) open to recipients to be able to ask on the other app: Did you get my recent message on SimpleX? That's just too unstable/unreliable for me. Perhaps I will try it again sometime, but for mow I have deled it.

If you wish to try something else (decentralized, anonymous), give DeltaChat a spin: https://delta.chat/

If you follow the URL on my profilere here there's a QR for my DeltaChat account. Feel free to chat me up (please reference AUR so I know where you come from) if you wish to try it and have no friends om DeltaChat.

@kseistrup

I wish I had the skills to unburden you from maintenance. What's wrong with SimpleX to not use it yourself any longer? I am looking at a decentralized alternative to Signal which might abandon EU.

Would someone like to take over maintenance of this package? I do not use SimpleX myself anymore, and I already have plenty of packages to maintain. Thanks.

@Juest 👍

i forgot to mention that i've resolved it by manually importing it with the keyserver, thanks for uploading it to the package/ubuntu keyserver so this is no longer needed @kseistrup !

Although the gpg(1) man page says that option --keyserver is obsolete, the following command seems to work in order to fetch the SimpleX Chat team’s GPG key:

gpg --keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org --recv-keys 0xFB44AF81A45BDE327319797C85107E357D4A17FC

PS: I have uploaded the GPG key to Ubuntu’s keyserver, so from next package update it will no longer be included explicitly in this package.

@Juest There are several ways to mitigate this:

1. Download the key from https://keys.openpgp.org/search?q=chat%40simplex.chat (URL mentioned in PKGBUILD), then import it with gpg --import < FB44AF81A45BDE327319797C85107E357D4A17FC.asc.
2. Temporarily add keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org to ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, then fetch the key with gpg --recv-keys 0xFB44AF81A45BDE327319797C85107E357D4A17FC.

unfortunately the gpg key it asks to import is not found in ubuntu keyserver (which is the gpg default) but it's in openpgp apparently meaning the receiving keys step is failing out of the box