Ministers and members of the Council of Ministers have until December 8 to get rid of them and install Olvid, Ukrinform reported, citing French information.

“At Olvid we have abandoned the central directory of our consumers, so we do not ask for personal data or engage in data marketing,” explains Thomas Bonnier, co-founder of the app, which was developed in 2019. By a Paris-based startup founded by two cybersecurity experts. Bainier admits that “it’s impossible to be sure we’ll never be hacked,” but assures Olvid’s architecture makes data breaches difficult.

“When we don’t have a central directory like WhatsApp, we have a smaller attack surface,” he says.

Olvid positions itself as the world’s most secure messaging service. It does not ask for any information when downloading; No phone number, no email address, no date of birth. WhatsApp, on the other hand, requires at least an email address to register and populate a central directory of its users.

Olvid users also do not use phone numbers to contact each other. To start the discussion, they first exchange a QR code, then a four-digit code. The application does not require a SIM card, only an Internet connection.

In Olvid, all conversation metadata, such as message content and the time the message was sent or received, is encrypted. For these security and data protection guarantees, Olvid was approved by Anssi (French National Agency for Information Systems Security) in 2020.

It is this French application that the Raid unit of the national police has used for communication since 2021. Starting from the summer of 2022, French Minister of Digital Technologies Jean-Noel Barro and his team took over.

Today, Olvid has approximately 100,000 users, but this number is expected to increase rapidly after Born’s circular. In the App Store, Olvid ranks first among free applications in the social networks category.

For security experts, Olvid’s still limited use means its reliability has not been proven. However, one of the founders states that the messaging program has not had any bugs since its launch.

Signal, represented by its president, Meredith Whittaker, believes its messaging service is just as secure. Meta also claims that WhatsApp is a free and highly secure platform with end-to-end encryption by default.

Previously, in March last year, the French government had already imposed restrictions and banned its employees from using entertainment applications such as Chinese network TikTok on their work phones.

None, as reported by Ukrinform reporter Confidential information cannot be trusted. Because if it comes to using them for secret communication, it is worth remembering that they can sometimes provide access to geographical locations. There is also a risk that Russian special services may obtain classified information.