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iphy

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    Comment #13394361

    I don't believe that marketing like that is the right thing to do. I want to help people be more secure, not just feel more secure through some snake oil security software. Because…

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    Comment #13394336

    Some background: TokTok was started a year ago and inherited the core code from Tox with the intention to take the project to the place it claims to be in. TokTok is not equal to T…

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    Comment #13394261

    Note that kebolio is in no way affiliated with Tox or TokTok, just a random person contributing to the discussion. I take full responsibility for everything I said, but I hope I do…

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    Comment #13394130

    I'm sorry, my words were poorly chosen. I am happy you reported this and I'm very happy with the discussion. This was an "if", not trying to point at you in particular.

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    Comment #13393804

    Yeah, I can understand that reaction. When I started on Tox, I had a similar reaction. It was a project whose code base was only understood by a single person. The current specific…

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    Comment #12662830

    We are doing exactly that: we are improving the current core and at the same time modelling the behaviour in Haskell. The Haskell version does not do networking and only represents…

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    Comment #12662482

    This is a much wanted feature, and I have long term plans to solve this issue together with a lot of other issues using a distributed data store (file system, database, whatever yo…

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    Comment #12660093

    qTox is currently undergoing major rewrites, so I'm not getting myself involved with that. Once the rewrites are done, I can see about reviewing it. Just like with toxcore, if I st…

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    Comment #12660086

    The preliminary plan is to deliver a high quality implementation of the Tox protocol and then deliver a high quality client. I personally don't have time to do both, and the team h…

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    Comment #12660060

    Regarding security audit: my day job is developing high security software. I could do a formal audit, and it would take about 2-3 person-weeks, and be completely useless, because i…

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    Comment #12660037

    That works with UDP hole punching ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching ), and there is a branch with uPNP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play ) sup…

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    Comment #12660021

    We're in the process of writing a specification ( https://github.com/TokTok/spec ) and new implementation in Haskell ( https://github.com/TokTok/hs-toxcore ). There is also a Rust …