ricochet VS Recaf

This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet

Ricochet seems dead. It's been five years since its last commit to their git repo, and their website's certificate expired last year. This is probably why you can't find much information.

I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution.

https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet

Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centralized servers. The whole thing hinges on the security of Tor itself which is probably a safe enough bet.

With that being said, if I had just one piece of advice - try to avoid ostentatious phrases like Speek is by far the most secure way to converse or 100% anonymous. Tor itself is not 100% anonymous, so that should immediately make anyone cautious. One of the things that I admired about the original Ricochet was that the developers never made brazen claims about their software. In fact, quite the opposite.

Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot.... It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor.

[1] https://cwtch.im/ [2] https://ricochet.im/

Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch

ricochet.im website not working (??)

> there isn't a currently easily available obvious way to have private secure conversations.

Ricochet[1] works really well. It uses Tor hidden services to communicate. Your Ricochet ID is your onion address. To add a contact, you input their Ricochet ID and a short message, and Ricochet connects to their onion address and sends a contact request. If the contact request is accepted then you'll each show up as a contact on each other's client and can chat whenever you want.

Tor is really perfect for this, you can't get more private or censorship-resistant than Tor.

The UI is currently not great, but that's not a protocol problem.

The biggest problem with Ricochet is that hardly anyone is using it.

[1] https://ricochet.im/

IF you've got the legal situation all sorted out, and know that you need to change a Java class file, and know how to program in Java, I'd suggest Recaf. With it, you can import a jar file, decompile, edit and recompile any source files in it, and export the whole thing again.

No one seems to mention Recaf wich is the best option IMO. You can choose between different decompilers (Fernflower, CFR, Jadx, Procyon and others) has bytecode editing capabilities (you don't have to fully decompile, you can edit the bytecode directly), built in peephole optimizations for flow and number obfuscations, various search options for methods, members, strings, and method virtualization via SSVM

Uhhh, no? For something like JavaFX, which I've complained about its bad native handling before, you can still make a multi-platform jar with a little bit of effort. For instance my project Recaf is distributed as a single JAR file. Just install JDK 11+ and you're good to go.

I did something like this, but its not its own control/library: https://github.com/Col-E/Recaf/blob/dev3/recaf-ui/src/main/java/me/coley/recaf/ui/pane/DiffViewPane.java

The decompiler they used to view that code is not very good, that output is garbled.

If you're going to take apart JVM bytecode, you're better off using Recafe or Quiltflower.

https://github.com/Col-E/Recaf

https://github.com/QuiltMC/quiltflower

I've recently been searching for tools that can help me find rats within jar files. So far I've found jd-gui and Recaf, do you all have any suggestions for other tools?

Example: DecompilePane.java

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