Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging system

Re:Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging sy... by vokep on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @05:01PM (#19686446)

Brilliant name alone, surprising nobody has come up with it yet.

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Re:Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging sy... by IloveHN84 on Thursday April 18, 2019 @01:20AM (#19688915)

Check tinfoil for Facebook and Twitter then!

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Re:Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging sy... by pasiaj on Thursday April 18, 2019 @02:26AM (#19689149)

https://www.foilchat.com/

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Re:Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging sy... by maqp on Thursday April 18, 2019 @05:19AM (#19689767)

Author here.

Since both are located in the capitol area of Finland and names are too close to another not to cause a mix up, I think it's important to clear any confusion:

The FoilChat company was founded on November 2013, and their first app was launched in April 2016. FoilChat is proprietary mobile/web app built in Java, JS and possibly Swift or Objective C. The encryption apparently uses RSA (what even is forward secrecy?), AES-CBC and PBKDF2.

TFC or Tinfoil Chat was named in July 2013, and the first release was in December 2013. TFC is FOSS system built in Python. TFC uses X448, XChaCha20-Poly1305 and Argon2.

So, same country, same start year. Different authors, different target market, different language, different protocol, different security level.

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Re:Tinfoil Chat – Onion-routed, endpoint secure messaging sy... by devoply on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @07:15PM (#19687256)

Should just call it NSA Bait to be more accurate.

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