What is the crowd's opinion of Torchat?

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Hello, m8! Thanks for your feedback. Have you read the whole white paper? Could you tell me why people do not use Ricochet or Torchat? Last Torchat update happened in 2012 and after 6 years there is absolutely no interest in it. Ricochet? Looks like the initial team is not working on the project anymore, because they now invest more time in hidden services.. Yes, there is a bunch of repos that are implementing the protocol, but don’t you think that it is dangerous to implement a protocol that is still in alpha and is not under development anymore? Every messenger you mentioned is using hidden services as the only way to interact. IMO, it’s bad, because it lowers efficiency of the network. We don’t want Cipher being an evil creature to TOR.

We use blockchain and we do spoil transactions but this will only benefit the network, because as soon as we reach enough clients, it will start affecting the real network, but it will also motivate Core team to increase Ethereum’s efficiency overall.

I don’t want to be rude with you, so I will only leave some answers to your complains. Thank you for being emotional and thank you for the time you invested in Cipher!

Anonymous and disposal but not accessible to everyone. It runs a hidden service locally for a temporary disposal chat that's secure. https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat I know this isn't what you asked but I think you'd be interested in it.

I think that the whole thing may have been a "good story" just to get people to run that program. The tor-chat.com website is a sophisticated scam.

When you do a search for torchat, the legitimate source site comes up first:

https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat

When you do a search for "tor-chat.com" this is the first entry out of only three entries total:

https://www.virustotal.com/en/ip-address/185.28.189.209/information/

(Do a Ctrl+F to search for tor-chat.com)

There is a Tor instant messenger but I'm not sure if this is what you're searched for. However it's still a messenger which uses the Tor network and is open source, so I'd think it's worth a try.

Download the original releases from here. Download the source to linux using wget.

wget https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat/archive/0.9.9.553.tar.gz tar zxvf 0.9.9.553.tar.gz cd TorChat-0.9.9.553/torchat/src/ edit your config file and run ./torchat.py

Its the original torchat client in python ....

To be honest, if what some in the crypto community have said is even remotely true. The NSA has a backdoor into everything. There has been some evidence that claims to show the NSA as having forced the original creators of encryption algorithms and schema's to put in back doors or paid people to be on committees that design these things. I've read that the best hole in encryption is the one you can't find even when looking at it.

The NSA has resources to do things we've only seen a small window into. If your family is concerned about security that much, there's TorChat. It's a completely decentralized chat program that uses the tor network and has total encryption. There's also literally no records of who made what chats in existence after they're sent and nothing can be traced. It's for the utmost ultra paranoid. Which should probably be all of us now.

Hangouts isn't going to be any more unsecure than any other product you're going to find. Unless you use TorChat.

It is probably due to the fact that Torchat runs its own Tor instance, you might be able to follow this: https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat/issues/21

Some information on this can also be found here: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/5554