RFC: Tor Messenger Alpha
Hi, Tor Messenger is an instant messaging client currently under development. It is designed to make connections using the Tor network and will therefore be a valuable piece in the privacy-enhancing software toolkit (web: Tor Browser, email: Thunderbird + TorBirdy, chat: Tor Messenger.) Based on the Instantbird IM client [0], Tor Messenger: - sends all traffic over Tor, - uses Off-the-Record (OTR) encryption [1] of conversations by default, - can be used with a wide variety of chat networks, - has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages. Some more information about Tor Messenger (and why we picked Instantbird) can be found on the wiki [2]. Current Status We have Tor Messenger bundles for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) with OTR (using ctypes-otr [4]) and Tor support (Tor binary and Tor Launcher included), among other privacy settings. We are doing automated builds of Tor Messenger using rbm [5] (thanks to Nicolas Vigier). @@@ WARNING: NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. @@@ Bundles Linux (32-bit) https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/tor-messenger-0.0... Linux (64-bit) https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/tor-messenger-0.0... sha256sum https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/sha256sums.txt https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/sha256sums.txt.as... The bundles are signed with my key (Sukhbir Singh; 0xB297B391). Extract the bundles and then run: ./start-tor-messenger. This is an early release and there may be serious privacy leaks and other issues -- please DO NOT recommend Tor Messenger to end users; this release is only for developers and advanced users who would like to help us with testing but understand the risks involved with using alpha software. Do not ignore this warning. We will try to have a monthly release cycle leading up to a stable release by July 2015. @@@ WARNING: NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. @@@ Feedback With this release, we invite feedback not limited to anonymity leaks, usability issues, feature requests and suggestions for improvement. Please submit your feedback using the bug tracker [3] (select the "Tor Messenger" component). You can also talk to us on this mailing list or on IRC. (No seriously, don't use the bundles for any serious communication yet.) [0] - http://instantbird.com/ [1] - https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ [2] - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorMessenger [3] - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/newticket [4] - https://github.com/arlolra/ctypes-otr [5] - http://rbm.boklm.eu/ Thanks, Arlo Breault and Sukhbir Singh
This little session at 31c3 may be of interest to anyone working on Tor Messenger. -Jeff
From: Ximin Luo <infinity0@pwned.gg> Subject: [messaging] Session at 31C3 Date: 22 December 2014 at 7:13:22 EST To: Messaging <messaging@moderncrypto.org>
For those of you going to 31C3, we are going to meet up and find a side room to have a discussion in:
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2014/wiki/Session:Messaging
We'll be focusing on technical points and specific areas of work to be doing next year. I'll add potential agenda items over the next few weeks; please feel free to make suggestions.
The suggested time slot is preliminary; please let me know off-thread if you'd prefer a different slot.
This little session at 31c3 may be of interest to anyone working on Tor Messenger. -Jeff
@Jeff: Is there a summary or notes from the session?
You should think also RFC 1312 for message send protocol. It is old but it is good. Person does not have to show online status, so is no presence. Much private like that. very simple
put MSP on hidden service for best
ty
@Ty: Interesting, thanks. Do you know of any implementations of this protocol? The security considerations aren’t very reassuring. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1312
You should think also RFC 1312 for message send protocol. It is old but it is good. Person does not have to show online status, so is no presence. Much private like that.very simple put MSP on hidden service for best ty From: Sukhbir Singh <azadi@riseup.net> To: tor-dev <tor-dev@lists.torproject.org> Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2014 3:22 PM Subject: [tor-dev] RFC: Tor Messenger Alpha Hi, Tor Messenger is an instant messaging client currently under development. It is designed to make connections using the Tor network and will therefore be a valuable piece in the privacy-enhancing software toolkit (web: Tor Browser, email: Thunderbird + TorBirdy, chat: Tor Messenger.) Based on the Instantbird IM client [0], Tor Messenger: - sends all traffic over Tor, - uses Off-the-Record (OTR) encryption [1] of conversations by default, - can be used with a wide variety of chat networks, - has an easy-to-use graphical user interface localized into multiple languages. Some more information about Tor Messenger (and why we picked Instantbird) can be found on the wiki [2]. Current Status We have Tor Messenger bundles for Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) with OTR (using ctypes-otr [4]) and Tor support (Tor binary and Tor Launcher included), among other privacy settings. We are doing automated builds of Tor Messenger using rbm [5] (thanks to Nicolas Vigier). @@@ WARNING: NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. @@@ Bundles Linux (32-bit) https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/tor-messenger-0.0... Linux (64-bit) https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/tor-messenger-0.0... sha256sum https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/sha256sums.txt https://people.torproject.org/~sukhbir/tor-messenger-0.0.4/sha256sums.txt.as... The bundles are signed with my key (Sukhbir Singh; 0xB297B391). Extract the bundles and then run: ./start-tor-messenger. This is an early release and there may be serious privacy leaks and other issues -- please DO NOT recommend Tor Messenger to end users; this release is only for developers and advanced users who would like to help us with testing but understand the risks involved with using alpha software. Do not ignore this warning. We will try to have a monthly release cycle leading up to a stable release by July 2015. @@@ WARNING: NOT READY FOR PUBLIC USE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE. @@@ Feedback With this release, we invite feedback not limited to anonymity leaks, usability issues, feature requests and suggestions for improvement. Please submit your feedback using the bug tracker [3] (select the "Tor Messenger" component). You can also talk to us on this mailing list or on IRC. (No seriously, don't use the bundles for any serious communication yet.) [0] - http://instantbird.com/ [1] - https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ [2] - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorMessenger [3] - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/newticket [4] - https://github.com/arlolra/ctypes-otr [5] - http://rbm.boklm.eu/ Thanks, Arlo Breault and Sukhbir Singh _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
The compressed folder name is: tor-messenger-0 Can you please make that tor-messenger next time?
participants (5)
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Arlo Breault -
Jeff Burdges -
Patrick Schleizer -
Sukhbir Singh -
Tyrano Sauro