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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by voice_of_reason on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:16PM (#14637899)
Is something wrong with tox? It is a p2p messenger that works on smartphones.
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by veeti on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:03PM (#14638349)
Homebrew crypto written by 4chan. No offline messages. Drains a gigabyte of data and battery overnight thanks to P2P.
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by shakna on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:19PM (#14638528)
> Homebrew crypto written by 4chan.

Where did you get that from? Tox uses libsodium. [0]

[0] https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/blob/master/docs/updat...

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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by veeti on Monday June 26, 2017 @01:30PM (#14638648)
There is more to building a secure end-to-end messaging protocol than dropping in libsodium and calling it a day. See issues like https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426.
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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by shakna on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:08PM (#14638944)
There is a lot more. But Tox is hardly "homebrew crypto" from "4chan" hackers.

Though, even the issue you've linked show the thought that the tox team have been putting into their protocol. (A stolen private key is game over, as in most situations. KCI is hard, let's rework.)

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Re:Russia threatens to block Telegram by betaby on Monday June 26, 2017 @12:52PM (#14638220)
Don't know. Never heard about it till today. Looks like this https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id933117605?mt=8 is the only IOS implementation
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