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| Tox | ricochet | |
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| 56 | 12 | |
| 8,723 | 3,680 | |
| - | 0.1% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| 21 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| C | C++ | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Tox
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Open source P2P alternative to Slack and Discord built on Tor and IPFS
How does it compare to the more mature Tox[0]?
0. https://tox.chat/
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Jitsi.org has started requiring authentication
You already can, apart from some DHT and bootstrapping stuff.
https://tox.chat/
https://jami.net/
I tried to like Jami, but it never worked right when I tried it. I didn't find a decent Android Tox client with video call, but it should work alright for text.
- signal, element ou wire ?
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I'm designing a spy game and need an Anonymous Chat App that's easy to use.
Still, Tox still around and kicking 😎
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Signal would 'walk' from UK if Online Safety Bill undermined encryption
jami.net and tox.chat sort of being the way skype originally was.
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Turkey Blocks Twitter After Public Criticism of Quake Response
Just heard about Tox today from a podcast: https://tox.chat/ (instant messenger, voice, video, screen share, file share)
- The law that will destroy privacy on the internet.
- για ποιό π***** λόγο το Viber ζητάει KYC;
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Is there a privacy-friendly site to upload an image with someone that can be deleted later?
Options are limited. All modern messengers require trust in the company running the server they connect to. So the only way to eliminate needing that trust is to use a messenger that is peer 2 peer (no server). This is limiting though since no server means no offline messaging. I know of one messenger that is encrypted, anonymous (required no identifying info to sign up) and is peer 2 peer. tox.chat
- Current situation of Tox · Issue #1379 · irungentoo/toxcore
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/
What are some alternatives?
session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger
Matrix Console Web
ricochet-refresh - Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
jami-cli - Jami client for terminal
Speek - Privacy focused messenger that doesn't trust anyone with your identity, your contact list, or your communications
Jitsi Meet - Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Signal-TLS-Proxy
Element - A glossy Matrix collaboration client for the web.
Mumble - Mumble is an open-source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software.
Conversations - Conversations is an open source XMPP/Jabber client for Android