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simplex-chat
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What are your favorite End-to-End encrypted tools for online privacy?
For messaging I'm currently on Olvid (E2E with physical key exchange) but since it still use their servers, I'm currently testing SimpleX where I can host my own servers.
- Apple reveals 'push notification spying' by foreign governments
- simplex bugs/ missing features
- Launching Default End-to-End Encryption on Messenger
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Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.
- Possible today in Signal? Disable link preview
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SMS Security and Privacy Gaps
I've been using SimpleX [0] with a couple of friends recently. It appears to work as advertised.
- SimpleX Chat v5.3.0 – Local file encryption and delivery receipts
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U.K. Abandons, for Now, Legislation That Would Have Banned End-to-End Encryption
If you have a mobile phone number, the domestic intelligence agency knows exactly where you are at all times and any LEO (without a warrant) can also find you. In addition, there have been numerous CCC presentations showing how insecure the global (excluding US) and (separately) US carriers are guilty of promiscuous metadata trafficking ($$) and insecure SS7 setups. As a consequence, for low $, you can go to any one of several shady websites and find the last location of almost any phone number (person unique ID) globally. There are additional varying exploitable vulnerabilities depending on the exact combination of {handset x carrier x country} to impersonate them, tap their line, reveal their exact location, and redirect their phone number through a third-party handset or even a PBX. These are more expensive and some capabilities are forbidden for all but a few selective intelligence uses.
Session (Signal fork) doesn't use phone numbers. It's pretty well-designed overall and uses an onion routing approach. It's already a superset of Signal except it doesn't use phone numbers. https://getsession.org
Also look interesting:
* (unproven) https://www.olvid.io/technology
* (unproven) https://simplex.chat
PS: Using regular TOR on home broadband or cloud servers is relatively risky and inefficient. Sybil attacks on it are common. And to network operators and security agencies it gives an easy "flow tag" of your uplink and exit node data traffic as automatically suspicious.
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Re: Profile Pictures
Why not open up a Feature request on https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues
simplexmq
- The first messenger without user IDs
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SimpleX Chat – fully open-source private messenger without any user IDs (not even random numbers) – v5.2 released with message delivery receipts ✅ and lots of other improvements.
Of course https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq
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How to use the ntf server ?
It's about ntf-server-ubuntu-20_04-x86-64 https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/releases/tag/v5.1.3
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SimpleX Chat: private and secure messenger without any user IDs (not even random)
Also, it is covered in whitepaper here: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md
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SimpleX Chat – the private messenger without any user IDs (not even random numbers) – v5.1 released with message reactions 🚀 and self-destruct passcode
Please review the whitepaper and / or website home page. I also wrote this post some time ago about why I believe that using pairwise identifiers should be a minimal requirement for a communication system to be considered private.
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Large file : 8Mb file limit
For more information see Simplex development roadmap xftp branch in github
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SimpleX File Transfer Protocol (aka XFTP) – a new open-source protocol for sending large files efficiently, privately and securely – beta versions of XFTP relays and CLI are released - developed in Haskell!
The source code: https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/tree/xftp
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SimpleX File Transfer Protocol (aka XFTP) – a new open-source protocol for sending large files efficiently, privately and securely – beta versions of XFTP relays and CLI are released!
You can download XFTP CLI (Linux) to send and receive files via the command line here - you need the file named xftp-ubuntu-20_04-x86-64, rename it to xftp.
- SimpleXMQ – SimpleX Messaging Protocol Written in Haskell
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SimpleX Chat – the 1st messenger without user profile IDs (not even random numbers) – v4.4 released with disappearing messages and connection verification!
We absolutely should assume they can be compromised, but as SimpleX servers do not participate in the initial key exchange for e2e encryption, the server compromise will not lead to the compromise of e2e encryption security. I wrote more on MITM issue in this post. Further, the threat model here explains other consequences of compromised SimpleX servers.
What are some alternatives?
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
ContactDiscoveryService
session-android - A private messenger for Android.
imessage - A Matrix-iMessage puppeting bridge
nostr - a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
monomer - An easy to use, cross platform, GUI library for writing Haskell applications.
Signal-Android - Fork from a private messenger for Android with extra options added: full backup and (partial, ony text) xml backup of messages. Restore can happen at any time, not only after a fresh install. Import SMS database. Import of (unencrypted) WhatsApp databases. Removed apk expire. Choose between passphrase protection and the Android screenlock. Choice for the backup location (internal or removable storage on Android < 11 (on 11 and higher this is already possible)). Set the maptype in the place picker. Option to treat view-once media as normal media. Option to ignore remote deletion. Choose between FCM or websocket notification delivery.
webwormhole - Peer authenticated WebRTC.
termpair - View and control terminals from your browser with end-to-end encryption 🔒
paper-research-privacy-matrix.org - Privacy research on Matrix.org
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
status-mobile - a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum