Wire Server open sourced
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Wire Server open sourced
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Re: Wire Server open sourced
#2It is worth noting that this venture features an open sourced, Haskell implementation of a messaging server and Rust implementations of the underlying secure messaging protocol, Axolotl
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#3To save people of a few seconds of confusion...
"Wire" is a secure messaging app. When I saw "wire server" I immediately though "wire protocol" which is a networking term and also something completely different.
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#4It is worth noting that this venture features an open sourced, Haskell implementation of a messaging server and Rust implementations of the underlying secure messaging protocol, Axolotl
Not only that, but the chat & calling actually work well too. Test it out yourself. My username on there is the same as my username on here.
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#5This is a compelling reason to use Wire over Telegram or whatsapp. I am assuming we can run our own instances though.
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#6It is worth noting that this venture features an open sourced, Haskell implementation of a messaging server and Rust implementations of the underlying secure messaging protocol, Axolotl
Not only that, but the chat & calling actually work well too. Test it out yourself. My username on there is the same as my username on here.
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Re: Wire Server open sourced
#7This is a compelling reason to use Wire over Telegram or whatsapp. I am assuming we can run our own instances though.
"The next step for the team is to remove dependencies on specific services to pave the road for an easily self-hostable server."
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#8I haven't used Wire [1] in a long time because it didn't have a way to backup and restore conversations when switching devices (Signal behaves the same way too). But I do look at the release notes whenever the client is updated. Recently I was happy to see that Wire allowed up to three accounts to be configured in the client!
I also like the fact that Wire doesn't need a phone number (unlike Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp and similar applications). You can sign up with an email address and use it. Of course, Wire is end-to-end encrypted, syncs across devices (unlike Signal) and has native^ multi-platform/multi-OS support where each device is independent and doesn't need the phone to be around (unlike Signal or WhatsApp).
On the topic of open sourcing the server, it's a good move from the security audit point of view. But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people.
^: As mentioned in a comment below, it's an Electron app, but I meant to indicate that there's an app that you can install for each platform without having more prerequisites (unlike Signal that requires Chrome/Chromium to be installed first).
[1]: https://wire.com
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#9I haven't used Wire [1] in a long time because it didn't have a way to backup and restore conversations when switching devices (Signal behaves the same way too). But I do look at the release notes whenever the client is updated. Recently I was happy to see that Wire allowed up to three accounts to be configured in the client! I also like the fact that Wire doesn't need a phone number (unlike Telegram, Signal, WhatsAp…
> native multi-platform/multi-OS support
Nope, just Electron.
Re: Wire Server open sourced
#10I haven't used Wire [1] in a long time because it didn't have a way to backup and restore conversations when switching devices (Signal behaves the same way too). But I do look at the release notes whenever the client is updated. Recently I was happy to see that Wire allowed up to three accounts to be configured in the client! I also like the fact that Wire doesn't need a phone number (unlike Telegram, Signal, WhatsAp…
You can backup/restore Signal Desktop conversations from the Dev Tools console:
`Whisper.Backup.backupToDirectory()`
`Whisper.Backup.importFromDirectory()`