c-toxcore
The future of online communications. (by TokTok)
Tox
The future of online communications. (by irungentoo)
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| c-toxcore | Tox | |
|---|---|---|
| 20 | 56 | |
| 2,156 | 8,724 | |
| 1.8% | - | |
| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 4 days ago | 14 days ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
c-toxcore
Posts with mentions or reviews of c-toxcore.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-15.
- Tox Core is one of the nicest-to-read C codebases
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uTox – The Lightweight Tox Client
See also this somewhat infamous thread on Tox's cryptographic design[1].
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Tox seems slowly dying (change my mind), what alternatives have you researched?
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 -- and outdated and outright abandoned clients which were never above, let's say, "beta quality".
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qTox unmaintained. Is this the end of qTox?
it has the new group chat feature (https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/pull/2269)
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Российские спецслужбы научились следить за пользователями Telegram
"If Tox already does onion routing, why use Tox over Tor?"
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My list of favorite secure messaging apps
What an arbitrary criteria to judge a project by. There have been 5 releases in the past year, including a major feature release.
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I know Privacy Guides is the new version of Privacy Tools, but even if so, do the recommendations (or at least most of them) in the old site still apply today?
Signal isn't falling behind and Tox is an old service that has had issues with messages being spoofable since day 1
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Shadiness in the Privacy Space: Jonah Aragon's (PrivacyGuides) Failed Attempt to Takeover PrivacyTools.io
tox https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
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E2E encrypted voice and chat service similar to Discord/Slack?
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.
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Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging
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.
Tox
Posts with mentions or reviews of Tox.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-11.
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]?
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Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication
You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff.
I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text.
- signal, element ou wire ?
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I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.
Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎
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Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption
jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was.
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Turkey Blocks Twitter After Public Criticism of Quake Response
Just heard about Tox today from a podcast: https://tox.chat/ (instant messenger, voice, video, screen share, file share)
- The law that will destroy privacy on the internet.
- για ποιό π***** λόγο το Viber ζητάει KYC;
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Is there a privacy-friendly site to upload an image with someone that can be deleted later?
Options are limited. All modern messengers require trust in the company running the server they connect to. So the only way to eliminate needing that trust is to use a messenger that is peer 2 peer (no server). This is limiting though since no server means no offline messaging. I know of one messenger that is encrypted, anonymous (required no identifying info to sign up) and is peer 2 peer. tox.chat
- Current situation of Tox · Issue #1379 · irungentoo/toxcore
What are some alternatives?
When comparing c-toxcore and Tox you can also consider the following projects:
berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
ricochet - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
aTox - Reasonable Tox client for Android
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
Matrix Console Web
bbs - Forum for discussing Internet censorship circumvention
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
toxic - A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
libuvpp - Minimal Change of libUV for P2P Networking
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.