Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging

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  1. Reticulum

    The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.

    I am not sure why, I do not know if anybody else look or understand what he is doing, but hell it doesn't make me feel confident to rely on it.

    - [0] https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/graphs/contributors

  2. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  3. firestr

    The Grass Computing Platform

    It's kind of interesting to see P2P coming back! Back in 2014 I wrote a realtime P2P application platform. Not only could you send encrypted messages between people, but you can also send files, play games, and write and share programs together, all within the application.

    https://firestr.com/

    What's cool about it is there is no central user database. Each user maintains their own contact list.

    P2P is really fun and I'm happy to see more P2P projects popping up!

  4. loki-network

    Lokinet is an anonymous, decentralized and IP based overlay network for the internet.

    Anyone tried https://getsession.org/ seriously?

    - desktop and mobile clients, cross-platform (with an AppImage that installs on old systems)

    - end to end encryption

    - onion routing, based on the Oxen Service Nodes [0], which also propels Lokinet that allows to anonymously browse the web

    - no phone number or email required

    - group chats, voice messages, voice and video calls (webRTC), attachments, emojis

    https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/about-the-oxen-blockchain/oxe...

    https://lokinet.org/

  5. session-android

    Session Android - Onion routing based messenger [DEPRECATED SEE README]

    Anyone tried https://getsession.org/ seriously?

    - desktop and mobile clients, cross-platform (with an AppImage that installs on old systems)

    - end to end encryption

    - onion routing, based on the Oxen Service Nodes [0], which also propels Lokinet that allows to anonymously browse the web

    - no phone number or email required

    - group chats, voice messages, voice and video calls (webRTC), attachments, emojis

    https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/about-the-oxen-blockchain/oxe...

    https://lokinet.org/

  6. firmware

    This repository contains the official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system. (by meshtastic)

    Have you seen Meshtastic (https://meshtastic.org/)? It seems like a similar concept but using dedicated devices and unlicensed ISM frequencies, and it's a proper mesh network (so you can even setup repeaters to provide better coverage for an area). I guess they wouldn't work too well if you're travelling to another country since you'd have to get the right radios for the country but it's a neat idea.

  7. tfc

    Tinfoil Chat - Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system

    Tin Foil Chat is in this variety - mailboxes are tor hidden services identified by their public key.

    https://github.com/maqp/tfc

  8. opmsg

    opmsg message encryption

    People have thought about how to do forward secrecy with PGP:

    https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks/2018-08-moving-forward/moving-...

    https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/openpgp-dr/openpgp_dr/index.ht...

    https://github.com/stealth/opmsg

    https://github.com/autocrypt/autocrypt/issues/444

    There's a lot going on in the space. It is more innovative than you're giving it credit for, especially around double ratchet. Not there yet, but there's a good reason why I don't mind: control. Multi client support (DeltaChat desktop, hallelujah) and the fact that email remains federation-first.

    My identity definitely leaks to my server because I pay it's bill. Not only that, but most of my contacts run their own email or borrow it from me or someone else. Our data does not leave any EU countries apart from the UK. We have IM that doesn't involve any Americans.

    Some might imagine we feel terribly smug about that right now :)

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  10. autocrypt

    Convenient End-to-End Encryption for E-Mail

    People have thought about how to do forward secrecy with PGP:

    https://sequoia-pgp.org/talks/2018-08-moving-forward/moving-...

    https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/openpgp-dr/openpgp_dr/index.ht...

    https://github.com/stealth/opmsg

    https://github.com/autocrypt/autocrypt/issues/444

    There's a lot going on in the space. It is more innovative than you're giving it credit for, especially around double ratchet. Not there yet, but there's a good reason why I don't mind: control. Multi client support (DeltaChat desktop, hallelujah) and the fact that email remains federation-first.

    My identity definitely leaks to my server because I pay it's bill. Not only that, but most of my contacts run their own email or borrow it from me or someone else. Our data does not leave any EU countries apart from the UK. We have IM that doesn't involve any Americans.

    Some might imagine we feel terribly smug about that right now :)

  11. Peergos

    A p2p, secure file storage, social network and application protocol

    G'day mempko, I remember firestr! Very nice! You might remember around the same time (2013) I started Peergos. We're still working on it!

    https://peergos.org

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