c-toxcore
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| c-toxcore | uTox | |
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| 20 | 2 | |
| 2,158 | 1,002 | |
| 2.1% | 1.1% | |
| 9.5 | 10.0 | |
| 1 day ago | about 2 years ago | |
| C | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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c-toxcore
- 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].
[1]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
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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 -- and outdated and outright abandoned clients which were never above, let's say, "beta quality".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.
https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/releases
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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.
[1] https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
uTox
What are some alternatives?
berty - Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network
aTox - Reasonable Tox client for Android
qTox - qTox is a chat, voice, video, and file transfer IM client using the encrypted peer-to-peer Tox protocol.
bbs - Forum for discussing Internet censorship circumvention
toxic - A Tox-based instant messaging and video chat client
libuvpp - Minimal Change of libUV for P2P Networking
privacytools.io - 🛡🛠 You are being watched. Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance.
c-toxcore - The future of online communications.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Tox - The future of online communications.
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.