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Integration with telecom gateways: Dero’s blockchain was built in such a way as to allow integration with telecommunication gateways, to send and receive short message service (SMS a.k.a. text) messages. Once your wallet is certified with a telecom operator, you will be able to send text messages that take advantage of the privacy features from the CryptoNote protocol. For example, ring CT signatures are just one of many features used to hide your data. One-time password verified SMS data will be relayed to the appropriate wallet and held completely privately for only the recipient.
This statement / idea has me thinking about usage of SMS to securely message individual parties without risking it being fished in transit. I can think of a couple scenarios for this in which messages would be intended to be sent securely, and could even potentially leverage a sort of "self destruction" or something through smart contract or some other means (this detail is hazy to me at time of writing this so far). A few situations I will outline below where I think secure SMS could potentially be useful:
- Today you have individuals utilizing apps like Snapchat or "incognito mode" on texting apps like Allo etc. with the pure reasoning to have the message be deleted after a certain amount of time. This way your conversation was taken place at one given point in time, and no other. The utilization of Dero's blockchain technology and integration with telecom gateways could allow for these secure transmissions through SMS to be carried out. While we understand the snapchat etc. messages to only last so long, they were still transmitted over the internet and in one form trackable.
- Perhaps military use cases or secure operations could utilize these secure transmissions as classified data or intelligence may be sent through quick communication. Now I'm sure they have their own communication methods today, and not condoning Dero to hold classified details on the blockchain, but I would imagine the technology itself could in turn be utilized for such a thing.
These are just two possibilities that I was thinking of while reading that article and really thought the telecom gateway integration stood out to me. Curious what you all think for this or if I'm way out in left field as far as understanding this concept.
