Wats App, Viber and Messenger no more a safe way to chat? Here is the solution: Wicker allows its users to set the expiry date of their chat ,which will be automatically removed after the expiry date.
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This allows users to Control and protect your extremely critical communications. Wickr’s end-to-end encrypted platform offers features like: Voice & Video Calls,Safe File transfer, SSO and MDM integration, Bots, full administrative controls and a whole lot more.
This software was developed by American company in 2012 by the same name Wicker.
The Wickr instant messaging apps allow users to exchange end-to-end encrypted and content-expiring messages, including photos, videos, and file attachments and place end-to-end encrypted video conference calls. The software is available for the iOS, Android, Mac, Windows 10, and Linux operating systems.
In November 2018, Wickr was chosen as a leader among the 10 selected emerging technology companies that research firm Forrester invited to participate in its independent evaluation.
According to the report, Wickr received the highest possible score of “differentiated” in the criteria of encryption and key management, user privacy and verification, performance, enhanced security or privacy functionality, customizations and integrations, deployment and management, vision and execution, and global reach and customer support.
Initially unveiled on iOS and later on Android, the Wickr app allows users to set an expiration time for their encrypted communications.[ In December 2014, Wickr released a desktop version of its secure communications platform. The release of the desktop Wickr app coincided with introducing the ability to sync messages across multiple devices, including mobile phones, tablets, and computers.
All communications on Wickr are encrypted locally on each device with a new key generated for each new message, meaning that no one except Wickr users have the keys to decipher their content. In addition to encrypting user data and conversations, Wickr strips metadata from all content transmitted through the network.
Since its launch, Wickr has gone through regular security audits by prominent information security organizations, which verified Wickr’s code, security and policies.[ Wickr has also launched a “bug bounty program” that offers a reward to hackers who can find a vulnerability in the app.
On January 5, 2015, the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Wickr a score of 5 out of 7 points on their “Secure Messaging Scorecard”.[It received points for having communications encrypted in transit, having communications encrypted with keys the provider didn’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 were stolen (forward secrecy), and having completed a recent independent security audit. It was missing points because its source code was not open to independent review, and because its security design was not well-documented. In 2015, Wickr published a white paper outlining the encryption protocol that they use for end-to-end encryption. However, the EFF is currently working on a new Secure Messaging Scorecard, and now that Wickr Me has an open source cryptographic protocol as of August 2017, this score is expected to rise.
In August 2017, the company announced that its free consumer product Wickr Me, is now using the same crypto protocol, open for independent public review as its paid collaboration platform Wickr Pro.
In February 2018, Wickr Me added free end-to-end encrypted calling with perfect forward secrecy.
Wickr Pro
In December 2016 Wicker stepped ahead and introduced a latest version namely Wicker Pro, In July 2017, Wickr Pro added secure group calling and video conferencing allowing teams in different companies to place conference end-to-end encrypted calls
Wickr Enterprise
This is the latest and fully customized version of Wicker. Which allows users to set the app according to the any government or private laws or regulations.
Main Features:
Open Acces
Location Sharing /Live for a customized time
Status sharing
SSO( Single Source On)
