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ricochet
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
This looks like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
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Where is there a tutorial for Ricochet Relay?
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.
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The Code the FBI Used to Wiretap the World
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.
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Ricochet reborn: A user friendly TorChat for everybody available for GNU/Linux and in the Mac Store and Windows Store.
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.
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How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
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.
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Documents Shows Just How Much The FBI Can Obtain From Encrypted Communication Services
[1] https://cwtch.im/ [2] https://ricochet.im/
- Darknet chat
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Why don't we have a privacy-compliant peer-to-peer communication platform yet? (something like the bittorrent of messaging and chat and blogs etc)
Abandoned, unmaintained, deprecated or unreleased: Ricochet, TOR Messenger, Cwtch
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TOR Messenger
ricochet.im website not working (??)
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A Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community
> 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/
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
Re: key distribution, we're just changing it now but in a few days the scheme will be:
1. a community member sends you an invite link containing some onion addresses of community members
2. you sync community data and send a CSR to the community owner.
3. We show an "unregistered" message next to your name until the community owner signs your CSR, at which point you're a full member.
We use PKI.js for the certs. For multi-party message-layer encryption with multi-device support we plan on using: https://github.com/local-first-web/auth, which is inspired by Keybase and a Martin Kleppmann paper.
What are some alternatives?
Tox - The future of online communications.
superhighway84 - USENET-inspired, uncensorable, decentralized internet discussion system running on IPFS & OrbitDB
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
orbitdb - Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
irssi - The client of the future
Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications
kubo - An IPFS implementation in Go
Signal-TLS-Proxy
go-telnet - Package telnet provides TELNET and TELNETS client and server implementations, for the Go programming language, in a style similar to the "net/http" library that is part of the Go standard library, including support for "middleware"; TELNETS is secure TELNET, with the TELNET protocol over a secured TLS (or SSL) connection.
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.