Re:Briar Desktop for Linux
by joshuaissac on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:35AM
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Briar is older than Matrix. It has been around since at least mid-2012, whereas Matrix is from 2014.
Disclosure: I was an intern for them in mid-2012.
Thanks that's really interesting. Does Briar have multiple client implementations like a documented protocol or something too?
briar is built on a p2p syncing protocol called bramble, you can read more here: https://code.briarproject.org/briar/briar/-/wikis/A-Quick-Ov...
> Just use Matrix instead.
No just don't. Matrix exposes metadata to every connected server.
no, Matrix exposes metadata to only the servers whose users are talking together.
Briar is p2p/offgridy/meshnety and Matrix is federated, always on internet connected.
So Briar messages are sent directly peer-to-peer? That's pretty cool. How does it work? There is a graphic on the website that suggests it uses Tor.
Re:Briar Desktop for Linux
by rubyist5eva on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:50AM
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> combined with the fact that I don't even know if the source they provide generates the same binary they distribute to many.
builds are reproducible
Just use Matrix instead.