BlackBerry to co-develop chat app with Sarment

TORONTO – BlackBerry is teaming up with luxury lifestyle service provider Sarment Holding to co-develop a highly-encrypted messaging application known as Keyyes Chat.The app will provide identity and overall data security management for Sarment's customers and will be available at the Apple App Store and Google Play Store in Q2 2019, says the news release. Developed with the BlackBerry Spark Communications Services SDK, the Keyyes Chat app includes FIPS-validated, app-level, AES 256-bit encryption to ensure data is always protected on a device, across the mobile network and into the enterprise infrastructure. Keyyes Chat will be integrated with Sarment’s Keyyes app,...