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…According to one webinar from CSIAC (2023) [2], XMPP is popular with Tox slowly catching up. [0]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore [1]: https://github.com/evilcorpltd/aTox [2]: https://csiac.dtic.mil/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CSIAC-Webi…

comment by e2le · 2025-09-02 · in Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

…give you this at all. 3. Key Compromise Impersonation. See also, Toxcore, which built atop NaCl: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 4. How do you do group messaging? If you do it as just pairwise, do you use the same public key…

comment by some_furry · 2024-05-23 · in Bluesky adds direct messages

…based on it inside his "Club Cyberia" Tox group to weaponize said issue. Stay away from Tox. 1. https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by anonbanker · 2024-05-11 · in Telegram founder claims Signal has a US government backdoor

…user related questions and #toktok for development. Edit: Also, development is happening on github: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore

comment by Tha_14 · 2023-08-31 · in Authentication on meet.jit.si

See also this somewhat infamous thread on Tox's cryptographic design[1]. [1]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by woodruffw · 2023-06-15 · in uTox – Lightweight Tox Client

…https://tox.chat/clients.html What is Tox? https://tox.chat/about.html Tox library source code: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore (Note that I am not interested in the security/cryptography aspects of Tox (if it is indeed secure -- which…

comment by peter_d_sherman · 2023-06-15 · in uTox – Lightweight Tox Client

There have been 6 releases in the past year, including a major feature merge. https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/releases https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/pull/2269 Tox is developed entirely by unpaid volunteers which means it will…

comment by Jfreegman · 2023-01-15 · in My list of favorite secure messaging apps

…wrong. They developed the software then decided to write the spec afterwards. There's also https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 - Mailfence: Last email I sent to them they don't use any kind of disk encryption - CriptText, these…

comment by dngray · 2022-04-12 · in Privacy-Respecting Software

…that they don't understand the security properties of tox very well[1]. I find that worrying. [1] https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by hannob · 2021-10-05 · in Tox: Decentralized and Encrypted Instant Messaging

…is technically interesting (true p2p), and worked fairly well when I last used it (around 2018). https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore https://github.com/uTox/uTox/ https://github.com/qTox/qTox

comment by avhon1 · 2020-10-20 · in Moxie Marlinspike has a plan to reclaim our privacy

…working than do it properly". Not sure if they got better since then. edit: yeah this issue https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 and the discussion here (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13392128

comment by shp0ngle · 2020-05-08 · in Cross-signing and end-to-end encryption by default

Yeah, I wouldn't use tox after reading this. https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by throwaway8879 · 2019-01-30 · in Ask HN: Is there any social network you trust?

…right now [1]. If you feel inclined to use Tox at all, you should do so as a curiosity only . [1]: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by woodruffw · 2019-01-06 · in Tox – An encrypted P2P chat protocol that does not rely on central servers

the main dev of tox is kinda toxic to it's own project with kneejerk responses like these: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 and https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore/issues/121 showing much more enthusiasm than competence…

comment by mstef · 2018-09-01 · in Briar Project

Read that: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 Note: The interesting part is not the vulnerability itself, that is relatively minor. The interesting part is where the tox developers explain that they don't really understand…

comment by hannob · 2018-04-03 · in Sunsetting Tor Messenger

…of clients yourself, etc). Riot main server has it but of course it's not required at all. [0] https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 [1] https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.php [2] https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issu…

comment by DiThi · 2017-09-19 · in Signal’s Moxie Marlinspike calls out Telegram founder Pavel Durov

…enumerate them properly, given the general lack of understanding of the code and specification." https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426

comment by hannob · 2017-07-22 · in Darknet Messenger Briar Releases Beta, Passes Security Audit

…end-to-end messaging protocol than dropping in libsodium and calling it a day. See issues like https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 .

comment by veeti · 2017-06-26 · in Russia threatens to block Telegram

See this: https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426 Long story short: if someone obtains your Tox private key, they are able to impersonate you in the conversations with other people without you realizing it. Tox developers admitted…

comment by r3bl · 2017-03-07 · in WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents

…flawed; and it later becomes clear that GrayHatter ostensibly didn't understand KCI specifically. https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues/426#issuecomment-...

comment by lvh · 2017-01-13 · in Tox Handshake Vulnerable to KCI

…else are invited to review the proposal when it comes out. Be sure to follow the issues on https://github.com/TokTok/c-toxcore/issues . You are also invited to join #toktok on Freenode to bounce ideas around. Offline messaging will be…

comment by iphy · 2016-10-07 · in TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging