Looking for a stable Crypto Messenger

[NotinRlyCrs]

Hello Guys,

right now im thinking about buying a Pinephone for only one special usecase:
Secure Text messaging with end to end encryption. I would prefer a decentral system (like briar) with selfdestructing messages.

Is there any stable OS out there for pinephone with an application for my requirement?

Greez

[ThrillGates]

Signal should work for you if you're using Mobian, UBPorts, or some other distro based on Debian. Axolotl is an alternative client and there is a discussion about it here.

[wibble]

I don't think there's a reason briar-gtk wouldn't be able to work on mobian, but you'd need to compile it yourself as their current packages for the briar-headless dependency are amd64 only. They're working on getting it included in debian, at which point it would become available for mobian as I understand it, but it's not there yet. I suppose you could ask them to compile aarch64 packages.

https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar-gtk
https://code.briarproject.org/briar/bria.../issues/72
https://media.dorfbrunnen.eu/briar/debs/briar-headless/