sarahjamielewis

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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
> Do you know what's going on with their suggested spelling/pronunciation? "Cwtch" was/is more common in casual conversation in South Wales (where fluent spoken Welsh is less common, but Welsh words are still use
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
It is something we get asked about fairly frequently, its not a high priority for us right now as it requires some thought as to not break or undermine any existing cryptographic/privacy properties that Cwtch does have (see: https:&#x
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
Cwtch requires setting up onion services, and the app currently does that automatically via establishing a control connection with a Tor process (either launched by Cwtch, or provided by the system). Orbot can be configured to expose the sa
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
There should be a link to the society website ( https://openprivacy.ca/ ) on the Cwtch site, but I can see that there isn't - we will get that fixed. Open Privacy Research Society is a Canadian non profit society, founde
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
SimpleX relies on out-of-band key material transfer between clients, in addition to the honesty of routing server to protect privacy and metadata. Cwtch uses the existing infrastructure of Tor and v3 onion services to establish p2p chat ses
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
It's definitely one of the bigger challenges. Currently we don't see a viable way to deploy something like Cwtch on iOS (both in due to how locked down the platform is in general, and the requirement to run a backing onion service
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
Shwmae, Sarah ydw i. I co-founded the Cwtch project, and yes I was born in Wales, lived there for 20+ years, and as a result learned Welsh in school; and while I no longer live there, I still consider myself, at least in part, Welsh.
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by sarahjamielewis 2y ago
Hi! Sarah from the Open Privacy Research Society / Cwtch team here - happy to answer questions.
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by sarahjamielewis 5y ago
On Android we implement a background service that will wake up periodically and either use the active tor connection or start a new one if the kernel has stopped it for any reason - and also reconnects the UI. This makes Cwtch connections f
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by sarahjamielewis 5y ago
Hi Sarah from Open Privacy / Cwtch team here - the main major difference is that Cwtch servers are completely untrusted under the risk model - they don't learn anything about the groups they are hosting, who is a member of which g
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by sarahjamielewis 7y ago
There is no official way for 3rd parties to make breach reports to OIPC-BC (nor is there a legal requirement for VCH to report to them) - it was only after Francesca raised the issue during a meeting with the commissioner(regarding breache