hashlink VS Signal-Desktop

Compare hashlink vs Signal-Desktop and see what are their differences.

hashlink

An IETF specification for cryptographic hyperlinking (by w3c-ccg)

Signal-Desktop

A private messenger for Windows, macOS, and Linux. (by signalapp)
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hashlink Signal-Desktop
2 322
15 14,008
- 0.4%
0.0 9.9
about 3 years ago 6 days ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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hashlink

Posts with mentions or reviews of hashlink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-28.
  • Grand jury subpoena for Signal user data, Central District of California
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2021
    What's missing is a way to pin web apps so that you always get the previous version (and can opt in to subsequent versions after checking their hash from a trusted source).

    There is a clever way of doing this, using a bookmarklet, a dataURI, and SRI, but the UX isn't great.[0] If something like Hashlinks[1] were supported by browsers, though, this could work quite nicely.

    [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456

    [1] https://w3c-ccg.github.io/hashlink/

  • Why the World Needs a Software Bill of Materials Now
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Mar 2021
    > What about websites though?

    It is possible for a web page to specify the expected hash of a script file, which the browser will enforce. This is called SRI (Subresource Integrity).[0]

    Of course that still leaves the bootstrapping problem of how the page itself can be guaranteed to have a specific hash, but fortunately there is a clever hack that can be done with bookmarklets[1], or the page can just be saved and loaded/served locally.

    While that works technically, the UX isn't great because the address bar won't show the domain of the remote server (although browsers seem to be hiding the address bar from the user more and more). A better solution would be for browsers to support Hashlinks[2], which would allow a bookmark to point to a remote page with fixed contents.

    [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17776456

    [2] https://github.com/w3c-ccg/hashlink

Signal-Desktop

Posts with mentions or reviews of Signal-Desktop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing hashlink and Signal-Desktop you can also consider the following projects:

vis_avs_dx - Direct3D 11 port of Advanced Visualization Studio, a music visualization plugin for Winamp.

signal-cli - signal-cli provides an unofficial commandline, JSON-RPC and dbus interface for the Signal messenger.

axolotl - A Signal compatible cross plattform client written in Go, Rust and Vuejs

session-desktop - Session Desktop - Onion routing based messenger

AppImageLauncher - Helper application for Linux distributions serving as a kind of "entry point" for running and integrating AppImages

webclient - Angular webclient (with Linux, macOS and Windows desktop clients) for CTemplar's encrypted email service.

telegram-bot-api - Telegram Bot API server

Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

nodegui - A library for building cross-platform native desktop applications with Node.js and CSS 🚀. React NodeGui : https://react.nodegui.org and Vue NodeGui: https://vue.nodegui.org

libsignal - Home to the Signal Protocol as well as other cryptographic primitives which make Signal possible.

Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".

Unigram - Telegram for Windows