Suggestions for secure, peer-to-peer, encrypted chat apps

Posted by ss6754 on Thursday December 26, 2013 @04:57AM
from the self-post dept.

With all the recent revelations about NSA and even more recent Telegram publicity, what hacker news audience would use for safe, peer-to-peer communication?

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Re:Suggestions for secure, peer-to-peer, encrypted chat apps by tobylane on Thursday December 26, 2013 @12:38PM (#6967008)

Apple's iMessage fits those criteria. I imagine some Pidgin/Adium plugin could as well (even on an insecure chat network), and IRC is easy to set up with a self signed certificate.

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Re:Suggestions for secure, peer-to-peer, encrypted chat apps by ballard on Thursday December 26, 2013 @08:55AM (#6966245)

Bug bounties, not shark-jumping contests.

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