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Open Source Project could use people
![[ca]](/s/countries/ca.gif) Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 16 July 2010 19:27:36
Hello everyone,
I have a nice little open source project that could use a few more good people. Not too many, just two to five.
It is a chat program that uses IPv6 to establish direct channels between people, so that their conversations are not store in servers. Other nice things can also result from direct connections, that will be explored.
The program also does standard XMPP chat using normal servers, like Jabber or Google talk.
This is *not* intended for the file sharing crowd, and it is not intended to establish anonymous chat servers. It is instead intended for people who sometimes want to chat with privacy that servers don't provide, and for people who want to connect without their partner being signed up to the same service.
The project is hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/egalite where you can take a quick look.
The project could use some developers for Linux, C++ and Qt stuff. Windows could be helpful too. This is for desktops and mobiles, MeeGo is the first mobile choice.
Also valuable could be some testers who are comfortable running and installing pre-beta software.
The current state of the project is pretty good. The basic functions are all working, connectsions can be connected, chat messages are passed and all that. More features will be added, and more user friendly administration is being added as well. Keeping lists of contacts (sort of like a phone book), all the normal preferences and all that.
You can contact me directly or on the sourceforge.net site.
Open Source Project could use people
Interesting, but you actually LOSE privacy by doing direct connections as now the parties who talk to each other know the IPv6 addresses; otherwise you could stay partially anonymous unless the server reveals which IP addresses are involved.
The 'reading-along' problem can be solved by applying crypto using for instance OTR, then indeed the server still knows the parties involved, to solve that for both your and the central-server case one can of course employ TOR.
You will want to do crypto anyway, sniffing packets is way too easy, for that reason if you want to be anonymous, OTR over MSN/ICQ is quite a good way to hide yourself as it is just another MSN stream; if you are going to do it directly between IP addresses, any sniffer knows who you are talking to. IPv6 is supposed to come with IPSEC, but then again, TLS is much easier to use and setup.
It of course depends on what your attack vector is and what you want to defend against...
Open Source Project could use people
Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 16 July 2010 20:59:57
actually, you lose privacy with respect to the party you are talking to.
You gain privacy with respect to the server that doesn't store your connections for the rest of eternity.
Open Source Project could use people
![[ch]](/s/countries/ch.gif) Shadow Hawkins on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 06:17:11
Couldn't you just use netcat for that?
Open Source Project could use people
At least stunnel in that case ;)
(Or ssh into the remote box and just use 'talk')
Open Source Project could use people
Shadow Hawkins on Friday, 30 July 2010 02:25:07
You could use all kinds of things.
You could call people on the phone, or visit them in person.
Actually it isn't very hard, you open an SSL socket and send your data. The fun part is making this work for plain users who don't know these things.
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on Friday, 16 July 2010 19:41:20
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