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There are a few people who have made decent DHT implementations similar to even what Kademilla's protocols are open sourced on github( https://github.com/isaacz

There are a few people who have made decent DHT implementations similar to even what Kademilla's protocols are open sourced on github( https://github.com/isaaczafuta/pydht https://github.com/isaaczafuta/pydht ). The real deal is people are ok with using just p2p clients with some chat features. It's much easier to be secure on p2p. Tor is the opposite of privacy as far as i'm concerned as well. Tor mail was being targeted a lot recently. I'm looking more forward to the newer skype called Tox: http://tox.im/ http://tox.im/, though it still doesn't sound like a perfect solution yet. This sound interesting if people adapt it more: http://jinroh.github.io/kadoh/ http://jinroh.github.io/kadoh/ Pidgin and Off the Record have been backdoored way too much over the years. It is about time for a new chat implementation that works.

wskinner 13y ago
Can you give more details about the OTR backdoor(s) you are referring to? I've never heard of this and google doesn't return much either.
- switch33 13y ago
  https://twitter.com/pr0f_srs/status/202819821254082560 https://twitter.com/pr0f_srs/status/202819821254082560 Within 1 google away. . .?
  - grey-area 13y ago
    When you say back-door, do you mean exploit? Those are very different things.
switch33 13y ago
These look useful wonder how good their implementation is: http://sipdht.sourceforge.net/ http://sipdht.sourceforge.net/ http://www.tixati.com/ http://www.tixati.com/ <-- Just the beginning description of it is great from what I can see. Something i'd have to look into. . . :D
adamlj 13y ago
By your logic people shouldn't be using Linux, Windows or any other software because people have found exploitable bugs in them. There has never been a backdoor in Pidgin. Instead Pidgin has a very healthy security community and they release several CVE's each year. I would use Pidgin over Tox without a blink since Pidgin has been around the block longer (almost 10 years now) while Tox hasn't released a single Security advisory yet. So I'm sure there's a lot of "low hanging fruit" exploits waiting to be found in Tox.

wskinner 13y ago

Can you give more details about the OTR backdoor(s) you are referring to? I've never heard of this and google doesn't return much either.

switch33 13y ago
https://twitter.com/pr0f_srs/status/202819821254082560 https://twitter.com/pr0f_srs/status/202819821254082560 Within 1 google away. . .?
- grey-area 13y ago
  When you say back-door, do you mean exploit? Those are very different things.

switch33 13y ago

These look useful wonder how good their implementation is: http://sipdht.sourceforge.net/ http://sipdht.sourceforge.net/ http://www.tixati.com/ http://www.tixati.com/ <-- Just the beginning description of it is great from what I can see. Something i'd have to look into. . . :D

adamlj 13y ago

By your logic people shouldn't be using Linux, Windows or any other software because people have found exploitable bugs in them. There has never been a backdoor in Pidgin. Instead Pidgin has a very healthy security community and they release several CVE's each year. I would use Pidgin over Tox without a blink since Pidgin has been around the block longer (almost 10 years now) while Tox hasn't released a single Security advisory yet. So I'm sure there's a lot of "low hanging fruit" exploits waiting to be found in Tox.