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irungentoo
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Comment #10051149
Your link doesn't work. http://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/aims/aims2009/BocekPHHS09.pdf seems to be the correct link.
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Comment #9579978
Just build it with asan and you will get all the safety, memory usage and slowness of a memory safe language.
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Comment #9579968
I made sure to make the packets in Tox as easy to parse as possible which greatly lowers the chances of fatal packet parsing bugs being present. As for the main tool I use to find …
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Comment #9038609
>Proplex, a long-time member of the Tox-Foundation and in charge of both infrastructure and marketing, called out tox devs because the 2 people in charge (irungentoo and stqism) we…
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Comment #9038516
First of all the choice of C is because it was the language I was the most confidant writing secure code in. I'm not going to learn a new language and then right away start try to …
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Comment #9038430
If you actually read the code you will see that it's true. The parsing is dead simple and written in a way that mistakes are very unlikely.
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Comment #9037038
You are just some troll trying to kill our project with fabrications and lies. You twist the truth to fit your own agenda. The guy in question tried to damage the project on his wa…
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Comment #8125494
endianess doesn't matter when you all you do with it is store it and check if it's equal to another. In all cases where it does matter, the values are converted. Tox has been confi…
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Comment #8124905
Our threat model is an attacker that wants to read and record the contents of conversations between everyone, they have the ability to modify/add/remove and log any packets. We ass…
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Comment #8124629
Tox is distributed meaning there are no central servers. Also, encryption is mandatory.
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Comment #8123845
The majority of NATs can be hole punched. If you can't hole punch then you will connect to your friend through a couple TCP nodes. They act like relays. TCP nodes are pretty much r…
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Comment #8123685
No. They have to be friends with you.
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Comment #8123602
Direct connection when possible. Connection routed over one TCP node when direct connections are impossible due to NAT issues.
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Comment #8123504
Instead of doing things like encrypting ips, peers have temporary DHT public keys. The only way to get the ip of someone from their Tox id is by knowing their public DHT key which …
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Comment #8123344
Every peer is identified by a curve25519 public key. To add someone as a friend, you add that public key. Connections between friends are encrypted. http://nacl.cr.yp.to/box.html i…
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Comment #8123295
Fixed. Thank you.
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Comment #8123247
Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.
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Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V
Tox is now usable and has reached alpha (in other words, it is mostly working, but lacking some features, bugs might be apparent). uTox is a lightweight (minimal dependencies) Tox …
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Comment #6121806
> Nonce's are "Numbers used ONCE", they 1) don't need to be secret and 2) ARE NOT encryption keys. We know. Putting the nonces in the handshake along with the session public key wa…
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Comment #6121689
>Lossless UDP? Is there a reason not to do TCP? Hole punching. >There is no way to know if the public key is genuine, so the system is very sensitive to MITM. If you want to add so…
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Comment #6121527
Since you managed to kill the website: https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core Tox is a completely decentralized secure messaging service which aims to replace skype. It it s…