Whether it’s corporations or governments, digital surveillance today is widespread. Tox is easy-to-use software that connects you with friends and family without anyone else listening in. While other big-name services require you to pay for features, Tox is P2P, completely free and comes without advertising — forever.
Instant messaging Chat instantly across the globe with Tox’s secure messages.
Voice Keep in touch with friends and family using Tox’s completely free and encrypted voice calls.
Video Catch up face to face, over Tox’s secure video calls.
Screen sharing Share your desktop with your friends with Tox’s screen sharing.
File sharing Trade files, with no artificial limits or caps.
Groups Chat, call, and share video and files with the whole gang in Tox’s group chats.
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There are now 15 competing standards.
tox isnt close to being new its been around for years
Yes, it is certainly not new, but most alternatives are discontinued or being replaced by proprietary alternatives and/or often paid ones. Tox is one of the few that continues to develop actively, for this reason I have thought of posting it for those who do not know it. Besides, it is still a good and valid app.
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XMPP and Matrix are very much still in development.
They don’t have onion routing etc though, so they are a somewhat different class of messenger. They work through Tor, but typically aren’t used that way.
Yes, various clients support Tor and can even use servers that are hosted as hidden services: https://gist.github.com/dllud/a46d4a555e31dfeff6ad41dcf20729ac
That’s pretty cool, ngl
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Before anyone tries this, keep in mind that the Tox developers have publicly admitted that they themselves do not know how their encryption works.
See the issues linked from here: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore#-1
This hadn’t been emphasized or recognized enough, since Tox has showed up more than a couple of times when discussing private messaging. It so happens the current implementation lacks audits and scrutiny, and shouldn’t be considered safe enough for relevant contents. And it had stayed like that for years now, which is sad, given how promising Tox looked. One can take a look at the issues mentioned in the Warning message, and get into subsequent/linked issues and discussions to find out…
I found ‘qTox’ to be a good client for Windows. for android there is ‘aTox’.
the experience is good with the Windows Client. (aTox does not support Voice and Video call yet. And there is no Tox Id Qr code in the aTox app. qTox has all these features.)
Last time I tried tox on my mobile phone, it unluckily drained the battery too much. But it already looked very promising.
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