Honest answers to the questions people actually ask about private messaging.
Nobody searches for an “encryption layer”. People ask whether Slack is end-to-end encrypted, whether Telegram is, how to encrypt a text. One page per question, answered straight, with HushHush as the practical fix where it is one and an honest “it isn’t” where it is not.
Work chat
The tools your employer runs, and what they can read.
Is Slack end-to-end encrypted?
No. Admins can export every message. How to send ones they cannot read.
Read the answer Work chatIs Microsoft Teams chat end-to-end encrypted?
Only certain one-to-one calls, by admin policy. Chat is not.
Read the answer Work chatIs Discord encrypted?
In transit, yes. End to end, no. What is private on Discord and what is not.
Read the answerEveryday messengers
The apps your friends and family will not leave.
Is Telegram end-to-end encrypted by default?
No. Cloud chats are readable by Telegram. HushHush adds end-to-end encryption on top, automatically.
Read the answer Everyday messengersA WhatsApp message WhatsApp itself cannot read
WhatsApp is already encrypted. Backups, borrowed phones and Meta's metadata are the gaps.
Read the answer Everyday messengersAre Instagram DMs and Messenger end-to-end encrypted?
What Meta's defaults are today, and how to encrypt a DM regardless.
Read the answer Everyday messengersHow to send an encrypted DM on X
What X's own encrypted DMs cover, and the route that works for everyone.
Read the answerPhone and email
The oldest channels, still the most used.
Encrypted SMS on iPhone and Android
A text nobody else can read, over the plain SMS network your carrier runs.
Read the answer Phone and emailHow to encrypt email in Gmail or Outlook without PGP
Confidential mode is not encryption. Here is what is.
Read the answer Phone and emailMessaging without a phone number or an account
HushHush never asks for either. Pair in person, send anywhere.
Read the answerOn your device
What happens when the phone itself is the weak point.
What a duress password does
A second password that opens a decoy, or wipes the real thing.
Read the answer On your deviceWhat happens to my messages if my phone is seized?
With a normal app, everything. With HushHush, a locked store that only your password opens.
Read the answer On your devicePost-quantum encrypted messaging: what HushHush does today
Exactly what the Ultra Secure option adds, and what it does not.
Read the answerGuides
Step by step, and side by side.
Same app, every one of these situations.
HushHush encrypts the text on your phone before any of these apps see it. iPhone and Android.