[guardian-dev] BitTorrent Bleep - another secure/private chat app

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Tim Bray wrote:

Ricochet may be interesting, and you SHOULD be able to build a
no-metadata-leaks IM on Tor, but it wasn’t well-served by that
horrible story in Wired, which was all rah-rah cheerleading
from the insider, no external voices, full of silly cliches:
“High-school drop-out defeats the NSA!!!”
ricochet-im/ricochet is kind of quiet…



It is too quiet, and full of tickets like "our binary protocol
is fragile" and "we maybe should add encryption on top of this
instead of just whatever the TorHS provides".



My main concern right now is that I think TorHS don't like to
be hosted on devices that change IPs a great deal, like phones
do. In early testing, this was a problem. Briar and Pogo seems
to be running into some of these problems, but I think they may
have found solutions.
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