The Indian Army has taken a major step towards taking forward the self-reliant India campaign of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The indigenous messaging app SAI has been developed by the Indian Army, which will be launched in the coming days. This app will compete with the messaging app WhatsApp. The Indian Army’s messaging app will be completely secure. The army will use this app for mutual communication.
The Indian Army’s messaging app will be named SAI (Secure Application for Internet). This app will support end to end secure voice, text and video calling service. This app will be for smartphones using Android based Internet service.
In a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance, the Indian Army’s messaging app SAI will be similar to the already commercially available messaging applications in India like WhatsApp, Telegram, SAMVAD and GIMS. This app will use the end to end encryption messaging protocol.
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It has been told by the government that SAI, the messaging app of the army, will be completely fullproof. In this, local in-house servers and security features with coding will be made available, which will be changed according to the need.
According to the statement issued by the ministry, the application has been approved for use by the auditors in the CERT-in panel and the Army Cyber Group after investigation. Now this app has been proposed for patent filing in front of Intellectual Property Right (IPR). Work is currently on the iOS version of this app.
