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oxen-core
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[PSA] Official communities are having an outage right now
Every official Session community hosted on the getsession.org domain, as well as the official websites (https://getsession.org, https://oxen.io) are unreachable as of now. https://lokinet.org seems to have issues as well.
- Tor vs Oxen Lokinet . How does the performance compare?
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Monero integration in BLACK protocol, a privacy focused fork of THORChain
Oxen is very much alive, as is Haven. Technologically Electroneum is very far away now, not being a privacy coin anymore, but it did start as a Monero fork and at least is still around.
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My list of favorite secure messaging apps
Really great list. Thank you. Some of these I wasn't even aware of. I've been using Session for about a year. A year ago it definitely had some missed messages and I was about to ditch it but I held strong and haven't experienced that issue in a while. Been flawless for about half a year. The Oxen/Loki network overall https://oxen.io/ is a really interesting alternative to Monero and Tor. It's interesting how it can be both!
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Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption
Widely used? No. I've found Session to be a decent alternative however it's still early development which entails some scuff and details as to how they intend for it to be financially supported long term aren't clear.
https://getsession.org/
TLDR on Session is that it's a fork of Signal (effectively same front end, key scheme, encryption scheme, etc) with a modified transport/delivery and notification system and without the phone-number-as-an-identifier caveat that signal has.
Note: Sorry for the wall of text below.
As for what that modified transport layer is, it's routing all the messaging and data hosting over Oxen (https://oxen.io/) which is a cryptocurrency that serves as a decentralised short term / small size addressable data store and an onion router for those messages/data. As much as cryptocurrency=bad in a lot of cases, here it kinda makes sense as it's just an automated digital marketplace for data hosting and bandwidth with tooling wrapped around it to support privacy and anonymity preserving tools without relying on some hopefully benevolent dictator to run it.
As for who's backing it, same group that develops the Oxen, an Australian non-profit focused on privacy tech and bearing the same name (Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation). While Oxen is pay for use (messaging and all that has an on chain cost), it looks like the foundation is covering the costs of running Session for the foreseeable future. Given the nature of the project, it should eventually be possible for users to pay their own infra costs however that doesn't seem to be implemented yet.
It's pretty easy to use.
1. Install via F-droid or download from the web.
2. Basic cryptocurrency wallet style setup where your account is based on a randomly generated "recovery seed" phrase (string of words with equal bits of randomness as the private key which can be used to rebuild the private key on a new device).
3. Then you can share your "Session ID" which is basically just your public key or you can pay for a custom username which is addressed to your public key (you can set names for contacts after adding them so the username is mostly for ease of discoverability).
4. After that it's basically just Signal but where you can make and throw away accounts at the drop of a hat.
My main complaints are
1. that it's a bit slow on delivery
2. The onion routing half of decentralised storage + routing is still being implemented for Session as the project is very much WIP at this stage.
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My takeaway is that provided it can stick around, Session has potential to shore up where Signal falls short. Give it a year or two in the oven and I might recommend it as a daily driver for messaging.
Likewise for the OPTF and their goals in general. It looks like once Session is "fully implemented" they are looking at trying to expand the approach to a discord/slack/matrix competitor as well which could be interesting. As far as I can tell they are just a bunch of privacy nerds with a little bit of a cryptocurrency lean to them but they are doing good work.
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Tornado Cash and WHY privacy chains are important!?!
Lets kickstart with Oxen, an open source privacy tech blockchain with 2 working products; Sessions Messenger - (a fully anonymous encrypted messaging service) and Lokinet - (a cutting edge low-latency onion router) - which both utilize the Oxen Service Node network to safeguard user privacy and anonymity.
- Weekly Ask Ledger Anything - leave your questions here! Week of June 6
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Weekly Ask Ledger Anything thread - Leave Your Questions here! Week of May 9, 2022
The https://oxen.io/ community patiently waits for the integration of their Ledger app. Any idea on when that's going to happen?
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Weekly Dev Update 12/04/2022
Wallet3 RPC calls for Get Balance, Get Address and Export Keys https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1525
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Weekly Dev Update 15/02/2022
Removes macro and goto code in wallet2::import_outputs function https://github.com/oxen-io/oxen-core/pull/1516
zano
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Monero integration in BLACK protocol, a privacy focused fork of THORChain
And on the CryptoNote side, so not among the children of Monero, but the siblings so to say, you have Zano.
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Weekly discussion: November 29th - October 5th 2021
Hello all! We've rolled out the redesign on most social sites now (the Reddit banner's temporary while we wait for the official one). What do you think? The redesigned wallets are in testing, and later we'll give zano.org a good sprucing up too.
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Weekly discussion: October 11th - October 17th 2021
Yeah, you're 100% right about translations for zano.org, we should have had this done a long time ago. The site's currently being redesigned to incorporate the new branding, so hooopefully that means we can finally add multi-language support, but I'll need to confirm that with the rest of the guys. Like you point out, Mandarin is the first language of a big chunk of the world, and our traffic stats reflect that, so either way we need to push ahead with that.
- ZANO Release 1.2.1.124 ยท (Minor bug fixes)
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June 5 - 290 members + Daily discussion
ok i had a doubt "The transactions between Zano network members are made untraceable with ring signatures and stealth addresses. Also, the way transaction data is stored on the blockchain allows access by authorized parties only, and none of the private data is ever publicly published.", - zano.org, so who are the authorized parties, my guess is that it would be the people owning the wallet using the multisig feature?
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Game Changer
Sorry guys, i love ARRR but the game has changed. In a huge way. One word. ZANO. By the guy that gave us Monero. The ultimate privacy coin. The tech is in a different dimension. Just starting to become known. Ground floor now. https://zano.org/
- Choose blockchain download location
- THIS WEEK ON MONERO TALK: Andrey Sabelnikov aka Cryptozoidberg: The Dev on the Cryptonote team that worked with Nicolas van Saberhagen
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Zano An Overview
Just curious, I looked at their github and saw 43% was written in javascript. Is it meant to run in the browser? And I also wonder, what's the problem with starting of on someone elses code? I've only been learning to program for 7 months or so. So excuse my ignorance on the subject.
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What are your top 5 potential 50x coins 2021 for the alt season?
At the moment exchanges are the main on-ramp for coins like Zano and XMR, but once they implement atomic swaps people will be able to swap directly from Bitcoin to Zano and vice versa. It'll take centralized exchanges and the increasingly repressive regulations they have to follow out of the equation. The "atomics" branch on github is quite active so I assume they're making good progress.
What are some alternatives?
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
lokinet-exit-provider - lokinet exit node webapp
session-android - A private messenger for Android.
lokinet-webrtc - lokinet webrtc demo with electron
loki-network - Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.
session-pysogs - Python implementation of the Session community server
oxen-mq - Communications layer used for both the Oxen storage server and oxend
session-ios - A private messenger for iOS.
lokinet-gui - GUI Control panel for Lokinet built using electron
plainquic - WIP development of QUIC-based connection tunnel
liblokinet-ffi - liblokinet ffi wrapper library collection
loki-network-control-panel - a control panel for managing Lokinet