c-toxcore VS qTox

See also this somewhat infamous thread on Tox's cryptographic design[1].

[1]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

In case with Tox you have to trust in homebrew crypto that was never properly audited (how about that security issue reported by Donenfeld in 2017, which is being tackled only now, sort of?) -- and outdated and outright abandoned clients which were never above, let's say, "beta quality".

it has the new group chat feature (https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/pull/2269)

"If Tox already does onion routing, why use Tox over Tor?"

What an arbitrary criteria to judge a project by. There have been 5 releases in the past year, including a major feature release.

https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/releases

Signal isn't falling behind and Tox is an old service that has had issues with messages being spoofable since day 1

tox https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

You could use a Tox front end like qTox or Toxic. It is a fully encrypted end-to-end communication protocol that allows text, voice, and video chat. The github page for the Tox protocol has some useful caveats about the its security.

It links to a bug report discussion where one of the developers states that they don't understand the security properties of tox very well[1].

I find that worrying.

[1] https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

If you go to https://github.com/qTox/qTox You will see the following: "Due to a lack of resources, qTox is no longer maintained. If someone with provable C++ experience and sufficient resources to maintain qTox wants to take over I'm happy to discuss that." So is someone going to "take over"? I really like qTox & would hate to see it go.

qTox https://qtox.github.io/ There is an android variant called aTox, not sure about mobile IOS.

Maybe something that uses the Tox network? Maybe qTox: https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox(p2p messaging?) failed: You can send files, but it looks like you can only open folders to look for files to send, not send folders themselves.

Tox (anonymous too, if routed through Tor) [clients like qTox might not be the "sexiest", but they are small and can be used almost anywhere]

What is Google? https://qtox.github.io/

Qtox does all that, even if screen sharing was a bit obscure years ago. Qtox won't work on iOS but there is an Android release. Big advantages: no server required, easy to use, secure, open source.