Open Whisper Systems

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Open Whisper Systems
AbbreviationOWS
Successor Signal Technology Foundation
FormationJanuary 21, 2013;11 years ago (2013-01-21) [1]
Founder Moxie Marlinspike [2]
DissolvedJanuary 10, 2018;6 years ago (2018-01-10) [3]
Purpose Software development [2]
Location
Products Signal, Signal Protocol
Fields Free and open-source software, Cryptography, Mobile software
Staff2–6 [5] [6]
Website whispersystems.org

Open Whisper Systems (abbreviated OWS [7] ) was a software development group [8] that was founded by Moxie Marlinspike in 2013. The group picked up the open source development of TextSecure and RedPhone, and was later responsible for starting the development of the Signal Protocol [9] and the Signal messaging app. In 2018, Signal Messenger was incorporated as an LLC by Moxie Marlinspike and Brian Acton and then rolled under the independent 501(c)(3) non-profit Signal Technology Foundation. Today, the Signal app is developed by Signal Messenger LLC, which is funded by the Signal Technology Foundation. [5] [10]

Contents

History

2010–2013: Background

Security researcher Moxie Marlinspike and roboticist Stuart Anderson co-founded a startup company called Whisper Systems in 2010. [11] [12] The company produced proprietary enterprise mobile security software. Among these were an encrypted texting program called TextSecure and an encrypted voice calling app called RedPhone. [13] They also developed a firewall and tools for encrypting other forms of data. [11]

In November 2011, Whisper Systems announced that it had been acquired by Twitter. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed by either company. [14] The acquisition was done "primarily so that Mr. Marlinspike could help the then-startup improve its security". [15] Shortly after the acquisition, Whisper Systems' RedPhone service was made unavailable. [16] Some criticized the removal, arguing that the software was "specifically targeted [to help] people under repressive regimes" and that it left people like the Egyptians in "a dangerous position" during the events of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. [17]

Twitter released TextSecure as free and open-source software under the GPLv3 license in December 2011. [11] [18] [19] [20] RedPhone was also released under the same license in July 2012. [21] Marlinspike later left Twitter and founded Open Whisper Systems as a collaborative open source project for the continued development of TextSecure and RedPhone. [22] [1]

2013–2018: Open Whisper Systems

Marlinspike launched Open Whisper Systems' website in January 2013. [2] [1]

In February 2014, Open Whisper Systems introduced the second version of their TextSecure Protocol (now Signal Protocol), which added end-to-end encrypted group chat and instant messaging capabilities to TextSecure. [23] Toward the end of July 2014, Open Whisper Systems announced plans to unify its RedPhone and TextSecure applications as Signal. [24] These announcements coincided with the initial release of Signal as a RedPhone counterpart for iOS. The developers said that their next steps would be to provide TextSecure instant messaging capabilities for iOS, unify the RedPhone and TextSecure applications on Android, and launch a web client. [25] Signal was the first iOS app to enable easy, strongly encrypted voice calls for free. [22] [26] TextSecure compatibility was added to the iOS application in March 2015. [27] [28]

On 18 November 2014, Open Whisper Systems announced a partnership with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption by incorporating the Signal Protocol into each WhatsApp client platform. [29] Open Whisper Systems said that they had already incorporated the protocol into the latest WhatsApp client for Android and that support for other clients, group/media messages, and key verification would be coming soon after. [30] WhatsApp confirmed the partnership to reporters, but there was no announcement or documentation about the encryption feature on the official website, and further requests for comment were declined. [31] On 5 April 2016, WhatsApp and Open Whisper Systems announced that they had finished adding end-to-end encryption to "every form of communication" on WhatsApp, and that users could now verify each other's keys. [32] [33] In September 2016, Google launched a new messaging app called Allo, which features an optional "incognito mode" that uses the Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption. [34] [35] In October 2016, Facebook deployed an optional mode called "secret conversations" in Facebook Messenger mobile apps which provides end-to-end encryption using an implementation of the Signal Protocol. [36] [37] [38]

In November 2015, the TextSecure and RedPhone applications on Android were merged to become Signal for Android. [39] A month later, Open Whisper Systems announced Signal Desktop, a Chrome app that could link with a Signal client. [40] At launch, the app could only be linked with the Android version of Signal. [40] On 26 September 2016, Open Whisper Systems announced that Signal Desktop could now be linked with the iOS version of Signal as well. [41] On 31 October 2017, Open Whisper Systems announced that the Chrome app was deprecated. [42] At the same time, they announced the release of a standalone desktop client for certain Windows, MacOS and Linux distributions. [42] [43]

On 4 October 2016, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Open Whisper Systems published a series of documents revealing that OWS had received a subpoena requiring them to provide information associated with two phone numbers for a federal grand jury investigation in the first half of 2016. [44] [45] [46] Only one of the two phone numbers was registered on Signal, and because of how the service is designed, OWS was only able to provide "the time the user’s account had been created and the last time it had connected to the service". [45] [44] Along with the subpoena, OWS received a gag order requiring OWS not to tell anyone about the subpoena for one year. [44] OWS approached the ACLU, and they were able to lift part of the gag order after challenging it in court. [44] OWS said it was the first time they had received a subpoena, and that they were committed to treat "any future requests the same way". [46]

2018–present: Signal Foundation

On February 21, 2018, Moxie Marlinspike and WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton announced the formation of the Signal Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is "to support, accelerate, and broaden Signal’s mission of making private communication accessible and ubiquitous." [5] [47] The foundation was started with an initial $50 million in funding from Acton, who had left WhatsApp's parent company Facebook in September 2017. [47] According to the announcement, Acton is the foundation's executive chairman and Marlinspike continued as CEO of Signal Messenger. [5] The Freedom of the Press Foundation agreed to continue accepting donations on behalf of Signal while the Signal Foundation's non-profit status was pending. [5] The Signal Foundation became officially tax-exempt in February 2019. [10]

Funding

In May 2014, Moxie Marlinspike said that "Open Whisper Systems is a project rather than a company, and the project's objective is not financial profit." [48] News media outlets later described Open Whisper Systems as a "non-profit software group" [22] [2] while the project was not registered as a non-profit organization. [8] [5] Between 2013 and 2016, Open Whisper Systems received grants from the Shuttleworth Foundation, [49] the Knight Foundation, [50] and the Open Technology Fund. [51]

Signal Messenger was initially funded by donations through the Freedom of the Press Foundation, [8] [52] which acted as Signal Messenger's fiscal sponsor while the Signal Foundation's non-profit status was pending. [5] [53] [54] The Signal Foundation is officially tax-exempt as of February 2019. [10]

In January 2021, the tech billionaire Elon Musk tweeted his support for the Signal app with two words "Use Signal", showing his favor for the app as an alternative to WhatsApp. Musk doubled down stating he had financially supported Signal in the past and that he will continue to do so. [55] In addition to other platform mass migrations, Signal saw a large influx of new users and user donations.

Reception

Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden endorsed Open Whisper Systems applications, [56] including during an interview with The New Yorker in October 2014, [57] and during a remote appearance at an event hosted by Ryerson University and Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, in March 2015. [58] Asked about encrypted messaging apps during a Reddit AMA in May 2015, he recommended "Signal for iOS, Redphone/TextSecure for Android". [59] [60] In November 2015, Snowden tweeted that he used Signal "every day". [61]

In October 2014, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) included TextSecure, RedPhone, and Signal in their updated Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) guide. [62] In November 2014, all three received top scores on the EFF's Secure Messaging Scorecard, along with Cryptocat, Silent Phone, and Silent Text. [63] They received points for having communications encrypted in transit, having communications encrypted with keys the providers don't have access to (end-to-end encryption), making it possible for users to independently verify their correspondent's identities, having past communications secure if the keys are stolen (forward secrecy), having their code open to independent review (open source), having their security designs well-documented, and having recent independent security audits. [63]

On 28 December 2014, Der Spiegel published slides from an internal NSA presentation dating to June 2012 in which the NSA deemed RedPhone on its own as a "major threat" to its mission, and when used in conjunction with other privacy tools such as Cspace, Tor, Tails, and TrueCrypt was ranked as "catastrophic," leading to a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence..." [64] [65]

Projects

Over its five-year existence from 2013 to 2018, the Open Whisper Systems group managed multiple projects, which included: [66]

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Signal

Some of these projects were discontinued or merged into other projects:

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RedPhone
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TextSecure

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