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I have been using Signal (and TextSecure before that) for a while. The two features that would make me use it more would be:

1. Web client. (I send most of my texts from my laptop, which means I use Hangouts)

2. Search messages on the client.

Thanks for a great product and keep up the good work.

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A browser extension for Chrome/Chromium is being worked on! You can track it at https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser

That's excellent. Installing and using GPG (or GPGTools or GPG Keychain or whatever it's name is) on OS X is awful.

Something that's still OSS and cares about UX (like Signal on iOS) would be fantastic.

OpenKeychain ported to computers, maybe?

> That's excellent. Installing and using GPG (or GPGTools or GPG Keychain or whatever it's name is) on OS X is awful.

I don't understand what's so difficult here. The biggest problem is understanding how PGP works, and having to type a password now and then. I use it all the time, to sign - not encrypt - my mail.

Finding the app (not the source code), finding out what three names mean (as already discussed), finding which app to launch, realising it only works with Apple Mail and the shell are all parts of the current experience.

Another study on a different client, but same thing: http://www.scmagazineuk.com/modern-pgp-is-unusable-according...

Looking forward to it!

Why is a browser extension needed in this case? Does not the browser expose a source of randomness that would be enough to write the rest of the crypto in JS and use that?

To prevent MITM against a web page.

Seems like it would be a natural fit for Firefox over Chrome, but I understand the market share is larger with the latter.

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