Today, Slate released an article highlighting the Silent Circle application seen here

Silent Circle‘s new mobile encryption app promises to revolutionize the mobile encryption field. Silent Circle’s new encryption app allows complete mobile device functionality while using being totally encrypted.

High level functionality included in your $20/mo access fee:

• Encrypted SMS text
• Encrypted SMS file transfer (up to 60mb!)
• Encrypted video conferencing
• Encrypted email
• Encrypted phone calls

Whats more important, is the access key for the encryption is stored on the endpoint, making third party decryption (even from Silent Circle or Uncle Sam) impossible!

I’m sure that Uncle Sam will catch wind of this quick! it should be interesting to see what happens from here.

Tags: cloud, Encryption, Security