[tor-talk] Tor Messenger

Markus Ottela oottela at cs.helsinki.fi
Sun Feb 10 17:27:14 UTC 2019


For configuring Pidgin/Adium/ChatSecure for OTR E2EE and Tor routing, see

https://theintercept.com/2015/07/14/communicating-secret-watched/

If you do this, make sure to register your XMPP account via Tor Browser. 
It might be a good idea to create the account under Onion Service XMPP 
server. This should prevent you from accidentally registering/logging in 
without Tor. You can find a list of servers at

https://gist.github.com/dllud/a46d4a555e31dfeff6ad41dcf20729ac

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However, it's better for security if you use messengers that are 
onion-routed by default. Consider taking a look at

Ricochet - https://ricochet.im

Really convenient and easy to use, v2 onion services, cross-platform 
support for Win/Mac/Linux.


Briar - https://briarproject.org

Android only, lots of interesting features like blog and forums built on 
top of the messaging protocol.


TFC - https://github.com/maqp/tfc

Less convenient (lack of GUI among other things) but high-end crypto 
like X448-XChaCha20-Poly1305, v3 Onions by default. Also has hardware 
based endpoint security. If you don't need that, the "local test" 
configuration is still usable on one computer although it looks a bit 
silly. Has file transfer and group conversations. Linux only. (Full 
disclosure: I'm the author.)

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Cheers,

Markus



On 10.2.2019 13.12, Petrusko wrote:
> Ooops sorry for the noise !
> I'll try to find informations before ennoying everybody !
> https://blog.torproject.org/sunsetting-tor-messenger
>
> So now, I've to change my password on my XMPP account :D
>
> Which XMPP client can be trusted today ?
>
>
> ps: really sad to read this news :/
>
>
> Le 10/02/2019 à 12:01, Petrusko a écrit :
>> Hey!
>>
>> This is a long time I've used Tor Messenger.
>> But I can't find the software on torproject.org
>> Did I missed something ?
>>
>> Thx for your help!
>>
>>
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