mobilecoin VS Conversations

On this day last month, v.4.1.0 of the protocol was released, enabling atomic swaps on the MobileCoin blockchain.

There is a distinction between "begin wrong" and "being so absolutely wrong that making a statement transparently communicates how small one's understanding is". The second applies here. He is absolutely wrong here. SGX is one aspect that has some beneficial contribution to the overall ideas in MobileCoin. It is not at all an elementary part. You can read here in detail what happens if SGX would be totally pwned: https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin/blob/master/fog-threat-model-2.1.0.md

General thoughts for a MobileCoin Fog Threat Model can be found here: https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin/blob/master/fog-threat-model-2.1.0.md E.g. you find a summary of what an 'SGX-compromising Adversary with root on Fog Infrastructure' can achieve.

Since you're passionate about the topic, it might make sense to read a bit about why Signal chose MobileCoin as well as MobileCoin's design goals.

You are welcome to audit the code yourself.

Link here: https://github.com/mobilecoinfoundation/mobilecoin#consensus

AFAIK Conversations is one of the best, if not the best. On F-Droid it’s gratis, on Google Play it costs something.

Conversations (version 2.12.3): Encrypted, easy-to-use XMPP instant messenger for your mobile device

Had no idea Conversations got spun off?

Conversations [1] is the best Android XMPP client I know. IIRC they pushed the adoption of OMEMO and implemented it first, before the desktop clients could catch up.

[1] https://conversations.im/

Maybe have a look at Briar or good old Jabber (XMPP) with OTR or OMEMO, e.g. implemented in Conversations.

Conversations (version 2.11.0+free): An encrypted, user friendly XMPP instant messaging client optimized for mobile