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OnionShare
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A Beginner's Guide to Hosting a Dark Web Chat Interface
Open the Tor browser and navigate to the OnionShare website (https://onionshare.org/).
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Ten years from Snowden revelations – what's next for Tor and privacy online?
Wasn't expecting to find something amazing from this blog post, but this project looks amazing! and has a few big partners behind it so I hope it does not vaporware https://onionshare.org/
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Are there fully anonymous alternatives to Session/Telegram?
OnionShare (chat/file transfer feature)
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What apps to synchronize share TEXT securely between Android / iOS / MacOS / Windows
https://onionshare.org/ (not ready yet)
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Overwriting your Windows partition
Could you share the project file, pretty please? :D Maybe using OnionShare (https://onionshare.org/) or Firefox Send (https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances/)?
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Most straight forward way to share a file with someone?
onionshare.org is p2p over the tor network, so very private but such a large file would strain the network
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Peer to peer method for file transfers and messaging
OnionShare is a multi-purpose tool that allows you to send and receive files and messages over Tor. I think this might be more aligned with your purposes, but with the caveat that this is a Tor-specific option (if I'm not mistaken).
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Terraform for Tor Onion Services
By default, it'll install the Onionshare utility to help with launching/managing some of the most common use cases for onion services. (You can also toggle it to NOT install by modifying deployment variables) You can find more in-depth instructions and deployment guides in the project's README file.
- Securely share images
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Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
Briar is one of the most important secure messaging projects currently. Not only does it remove the need to trust the vendor about content (like with all E2EE messaging apps), you also get to keep the metadata about communication to yourself as data transits from one Tor Onion Service to another.
The downside is of course, you need to keep the endpoint powered on when you want to be reachable so it will increase the battery drain on your phone.
Note: There's also a desktop client if that's easier to keep online https://briarproject.org/download-briar-desktop/
One extremely important thing Briar is doing, is it's using the P2P as means to host alternative social interaction formats, like forums and blogs. Similar to Signal/WhatsApp stories (which is somewhat similar to microblogs/FB wall), it's a way to indirectly share information. You could pretty much emulate any social media platform on top of E2EE protocol with ~zero infrastructure cost and without having to worry about data mining. I'd argue what Briar's innovating on here is one of the most important aspects in what's left for secure messaging.
Finally a small caveat: Briar will share your Bluetooth MAC address with all peers so it can automatically use that when you're in close proximity with your peer. Thus sharing your Briar ID publicly is not a good idea for two reasons:
1) major global adversaries may have access to that information (e.g. if Google aggregates it) which can deanonymize your account. This also allows slightly technical person to confirm identity of briar account if they suspect it's you (a bit wonky threat model but still).
2) it ties everything you do across your accounts on same device together, so there's strong linkability even if you rotate the identity key by reinstalling the app.
Briar is pretty clear about this in it's FAQ, but it's still not very well known although it definitely should be.
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That being said, if you want similar Onion Service based communication with no such linkability, there's https://cwtch.im/ which is a fantastic project.
There's also https://www.ricochetrefresh.net/
Both are spiritual successors to John Brooks' `Ricochet` application.
You can also chat and share files (among other things) with https://onionshare.org/
(And finally, you can get remote exfiltration security for keys/plaintexts with TFC https://github.com/maqp/tfc (my personal work), at the cost of losing some features like message forwarding etc that the architecture prevents you from doing.)
berty
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How to explore writing an app for ipfs with rust?
Not written in Rust, but may be Berty can give you some ideas?
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Daily General Discussion - February 22, 2023
Berty is an open source, secure, private, censorship resilient messaging protocol. Berty is designed to work with NO internet connection. Thanks to Bluetooth LE and mDNS, messages can be securely and privately relayed, peer to peer to create an adhoc network. Of course old fashioned networks still work, and if you’re connected to a “hostile” network that’s being surveilled, the Berty protocol can still operate safely and securely thanks to e2e encryption. Super nice!
- So there's no online messaging service that's private, anonymous and secure?
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Hacker News top posts: Nov 21, 2022
Berty: Privacy-first messaging app\ (34 comments)
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Berty: The privacy-first messaging app
https://github.com/berty/berty/tree/master/docs/protocol
On the subject of rendezvous, some years ago I came across a personal P2P project where the author provided an unusual, additional, alternative method for a peer to succinctly and confidentially provide another peer with their address via any arbitrary web page, e.g., a pastebin. Unfortunately I cannot seem to find this project again. Running one's own rendezvous server that only serves up peer addresses and passes no traffic between peers is relatively easy and inexpensive, but being a remote server still it requires some maintenance. This author had thought about other possible means of exchanging addresses over the public internet. IME that is unusual in P2P projects.
I says it in the home page:
Open Source. ... read it, fork it, improve it.
Well, in fact they have a CLI client ( that I haven't tested ) [1] and their site says they're going to be available also for Mac, Windows and Linux.
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Peer-to-Peer Encrypted Messaging
Check out https://berty.tech for direct off network communications.
What are some alternatives?
transfer.sh - Easy and fast file sharing from the command-line.
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
droppy
securedrop - GitHub repository for the SecureDrop whistleblower platform. Do not submit tips here!
ProjectSend - ProjectSend is a free, open source software that lets you share files with your clients, focused on ease of use and privacy. It supports clients groups, system users roles, statistics, multiple languages, detailed logs... and much more!
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
ipfs.pics - Content-addressable, peer-to-peer method of storing and sharing images on the internet.
lufi - Read-only mirror of https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lufi/
session-android - A private messenger for Android.
ChatSecure-iOS - ChatSecure is a free and open source encrypted chat client for iOS that supports OTR and OMEMO encryption over XMPP.
webwormhole - Peer authenticated WebRTC.
orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web