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Why not develop tox instead, which is open source, end to end encrypted, on more platforms, and seemingly further along in general?
by JoeCoder_ 9y ago
Why not develop tox instead, which is open source, end to end encrypted, on more platforms, and seemingly further along in general?
- secfirstmd 9y agoBriar is also e2e and open source. It also has a ton of mesh networking features that Tox doesn't have.
- sldoliadis 9y agoCan you say a bit ore about the mesh network features of Briar? I've looked through a lot of the documentation and can't find anything other than references to bluetooth and wi-fi, which is opaque to me. I'm kind of wondering about something like briar, but that can connect over a cjdns network if available... is that what it's doing?
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- hannob 9y agoMaybe because tox is developed by people who don't know what they're doing. Money quote from a tox dev: "Tox provides some strong security guarantees. We haven't got to the point where we can enumerate them properly, given the general lack of understanding of the code and specification." https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426
- vonuebelgarten 9y agoI have the impression Tox withered and died, which is really sad considering how usable (when compared to alternatives) it is.
- sldoliadis 9y agoFWIW, the git repository looks like it was worked on within the last couple of days.
- cyphar 9y agoI once tried to read their "protocol documentation" and realised that it was effectively non-existant and the only way to understand what was going on was to read the toxcore code which was written by 4chan. I'm not a crypto expert, but I also personally wouldn't put much stock in the security of their protocol or implementation.