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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.
ContactDiscoveryService
- Is it generally ok to store phone numbers in a firestore database?
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7 Best Open-Source Alternatives To WhatsApp In 2023
[1] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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WhatsApp data leak: 500M user records for sale
Signal uses SGX for remote attestation, which presumably lets the client verify that the code running on the server is a build of the OSS code and not a modified version. But I don't know the details or if this is reliable.
SGX and remote attestation described here:
https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
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WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale
Signal does private contact discovery and the effort they've gone to to do this is quite impressive.
- A brief family story about convincing boomer parents to Signal
- Elon on Signal
- Absolutely Insane "Feature"
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Types of Execution Environments, Attestation and SGX
TEEs have numerous privacy-enhancing applications that may benefit users. One of them is, as discussed earlier, private contact discovery; the Signal application uses a contact discovery service enhanced using Intel SGX, a TEE technology, to protect its users' privacy. A similar application of TEEs is performing malware analysis in a remote cloud service, so that the service may not identify users by the contents of their devices, such as the applications they have installed, especially important as 98.93% of users may be uniquely identified by the list of applications they have installed.
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Twilio Incident: What Signal Users Need to Know
Signal (or, more accurately, one of its predecessors) used to use client-side private set intersection for contact discovery, but this scales poorly [1].
Now they use a solution based on Intel SGX and server-side trusted computing [2].
[1] https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/
[2] https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
- Where are Signal servers located and how is it safer than Swiss-based Threema ?
What are some alternatives?
simplex-chat - SimpleX - the first messaging network operating without user identifiers of any kind - 100% private by design! iOS, Android and desktop apps 📱!
whatsapp-viewer - Small tool to display chats from the Android msgstore.db database (crypt12)
imessage - A Matrix-iMessage puppeting bridge
TextSecure - A private messenger for Android.
monomer - An easy to use, cross platform, GUI library for writing Haskell applications.
Signal-Server - Server supporting the Signal Private Messenger applications on Android, Desktop, and iOS
webwormhole - Peer authenticated WebRTC.
TelegramAndroid - Fork client of Telegram app for Android.
paper-research-privacy-matrix.org - Privacy research on Matrix.org
status-mobile - a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
element-ios - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for iOS