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Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging

15 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2014-09-22 · latest 2025-02-14

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    Ricochet: Peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor hidden services (2017)
    story by philonoist · 2025-02-14 · 30 comments
  2. This sounds like a much more polished alternative to Ricochet: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
    comment by jstanley · 2023-09-12 · in Quiet – Encrypted P2P team chat with no servers, just Tor
  3. I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution. https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centralized servers. The…
    comment by spongechameleon · 2022-07-07 · in Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app
  4. Check out https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/prot... . It is metadata-free. It does not require a centralized server. It uses Tor. Goals of the project (solved): Users aren't personally identifiable by contacts or…
    comment by johnisgood · 2021-12-16 · in How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  5. …can publish the hidden service represented by their contact ID. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/desi... ! [1] https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet (maintained fork:…
    comment by johnisgood · 2021-12-15 · in How to build large-scale end-to-end encrypted group video calls
  6. The design doc is here. https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/blob/master/doc/desi... It describes one of its goals as, "Resist blacklisting or denial of service against users." Preventing both blacklisting and DoS seems contradictory to…
    comment by dfabulich · 2019-01-13 · in Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messaging
  7. …as https://briarproject.org . So these do exist. Such a thing was also being proposed for Ricochet https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/54
    comment by tya99 · 2018-12-21 · in WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem
  8. > I wish the page had screenshots. The Github page has one: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/ > As far as I can see currently the only widely used, secure protocols are Matrix and XMPP with OMEMO. secure != metadata free
    comment by jerheinze · 2018-04-03 · in Sunsetting Tor Messenger
  9. > That doesn't look very promising. Please see this comment by Sarah, https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/555#issuecomm... ``` Hi, I don't speak for @special, but I think some context might be useful. There is currently a bunch…
    comment by jerheinze · 2018-04-03 · in Sunsetting Tor Messenger
  10. …leaking meta-data? I know Ricochet is open to use a stronger encryption layer on top of Tor †. † https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/72
    comment by slasaus · 2016-04-05 · in WhatsApp's Signal Protocol integration is now complete
  11. …with admirable goals and an interesting take (though I'm not interested in 'real-time' messaging): https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet
    comment by narrowrail · 2016-02-20 · in 'Ricochet', the Messenger That Beats Metadata, Passes Security Audit
  12. …your id. > Anyone with the onion address can still estimate availability by watching descriptors https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/155
    comment by slasaus · 2015-11-28 · in Telegram stalking
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    Anonymous peer-to-peer instant messaging
    story by sachalep · 2015-05-27 · 0 comments
  14. Also in this space: https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet - seems to have some pretty notable people involved.
    comment by csirac2 · 2015-04-26 · in Firestr: encrypted P2P chat and Lua application platform
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    Ricochet: Anonymous open-source P2P instant messaging
    story by adamnemecek · 2014-09-22 · 0 comments