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Orbot (Tor for Android) allows you to host hidden services on your phone. My ideal IM app would be one which uses Tor to enable peer to peer delivery of message
by mike-cardwell 13y ago
Orbot (Tor for Android) allows you to host hidden services on your phone. My ideal IM app would be one which uses Tor to enable peer to peer delivery of messages over Tor hidden services directly between phones.
This way, not only would the message content be safe from pyring eyes, but nobody would be able to see who is talking to who or when.
- xnyhps 13y agoI totally agree! I've been working on federating XMPP over hidden services (https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/06/11/xmpp-federation-over-tor-hidden-services/ https://blog.thijsalkema.de/blog/2013/06/11/xmpp-federation-...), but I don't give a setup like that any chance to be possible on iOS.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoThat sounds cool. Although it's not exactly what I was talking about. In my ideal scenario phones would communicate directly with each other without having to rely on a third party server.
- xnyhps 13y agoThe end goal is to package Tor + this + an XMPP server (Prosody) into plugins for clients. It'd be a federated network running through Tor, but any XMPP-capable client will be able to use it. Sure, you need to rely on Tor, but aside from that anybody could set up their own server easily (no hassle with DNS and SSL certs).