Google working on end-to-end encryption for RCS Messages

San Francisco: Google which rolled out its Rich Communication Services (RCS), an online protocol to replace traditional SMS messaging, in November last year in the US is working on end-to-end encryption to its RCS Messages.

According to 9to5 Google, RCS which is the successor to SMS messaging and an open competitor to Apple’s iMessage, may soon have end-to-end encryption like Signal and iMessage have.

An internal build of Google Messages v. 6.2 has several lines of code that offer clues to possible future features for the app, including 12 new strings that refer to encryption.