LEmotional people and time management specialists know that it is risky to accumulate calendars, addresses and contact books. The abundance of scheduling tools is the best way to miss an important appointment or urgent message. But efficiency is not the mother of precaution.
The government, which had already waged war against the use by its civil servants and ministers of general public mailboxes, like that of Google, and networks that are too “fun”, like TikTok, is taking its actions up a notch. requirements. Matignon has just informed his ministers and their cabinet that they have a little over a week – until Friday December 8 – to abandon their favorite messaging and adopt Olvid.
Great publicity stunt for this French start-up born in 2018 and which promises the most secure messaging in the world. An important issue, which had led certain political leaders, such as the President of the Republic, to switch to the Russian Telegram, supposedly inviolable, and others to the American Signal, which also claims to be unassailable by pirates.
Support from public authorities
Olvid offers even more security. It does not vacuum up address books and does not require any personal data, name, email or telephone number. No trace either since the encryption keys are erased after the conversation. The firm, founded by two doctors in cryptography, claims to be ready for the leap to quantum computers which themselves claim to be able to decrypt everything.
It has obtained the label from the National Information Systems Security Agency. The government recommendation places it among the future French digital champions, largely supported by public authorities, in the same way as Mistral in artificial intelligence or Pasqal in quantum.
The initiative is commendable, but we must ensure that the impressive security of this messaging does not come at the expense of its ease of use and sharing, pushing users to multiply the means of communication (one messaging per use) and, therefore, wasting time and taking additional risks. The delegate minister responsible for digital transition, Jean-Noël Barrot, chose the very controversial and insecure network X to say all the good things he thought of Olvid.