[kwlug-disc] Secure IM news

[Chamunks]

A fully p2p system is the best system, but it would have to be based on
something like DHTs so that offline messaging could work;

This would be ideal except on mobile battery is at a premium so good luck
telling people they need to contribute cycles to a dht

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016, 1:24 PM Nick Guenther <nguenthe at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

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> Le 26 novembre 2016 12:25:40 HNE, "B. S." <bs27975 at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >> it would be ideal that we try and find a system that they can't have
> >> one centralized location to squat in and collect our metadata.
> >
> >Does that not exist already in Tor?
> >
>
> Only if all the servers you use are .onion hidden services. If you go from
> exit nodes to talk.google.com you made as little progress as using Tor to
> access Facebook.
> A fully p2p system is the best system, but it would have to be based on
> something like DHTs so that offline messaging could work; this was tox's
> idea, but I do not trust their code quality one bit; maybe they've gotten
> better in the years since their founding.
>
>
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