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Re:Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely o... by mirimir on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:13PM (#18841959)
Yes. Each client runs a Tor .onion service, and there's end-to-end encryption. So arguably, users are mutually anonymous (except for their .onion addresses).

But it's only available for Windows, macOS and Linux. On Android, there's Briar, which is similar.[0] But Briar can also connect via Bluetooth and WiFi. That's useful when the Internet is unavailable. But it's bad because user anonymity could be blown.

0) https://briarproject.org/

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Re:Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely o... by jstanley on Monday January 07, 2019 @06:46AM (#18844450)
I was working on a self-hostable web interface for a while. There's a public instance at https://ricochet-web.org/ but unlike the official client it hasn't been professionally (or otherwise, for that matter) security-tested and is vulnerable in various ways the official client isn't. It also has quite a few known and unknown bugs.
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