uTox – Free, Secure Instant Messaging • Hacker News Board

I've been using this for the last 6 months or so. Seems pretty good as a client. Stable on the comms side, although short of an audit, I'm just having faith in the security side of things.

What it really needs is some way of having a roaming profile though. Currently you have to have multiple accounts, one for each device. So my friends list has a lot of duplicates depending on whether they're on their work computer, at home, on their phone, etc...

I'm not actually that fussed about the encryption side of things. I'm far more happy with the lack of reliance on centralised servers. You don't need an account somewhere to get it up and running, you just send a message to a friend and compare secrets to authenticate.

Re: uTox – Free, Secure Instant Messaging

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Post by mrmondo » Wed, May 20, 2015, 10:38 PM UTC

cbsmith wrote: post #4

thomasfl wrote: post #2

Would be cool ta have FOSS iOS apps made with this.

We basically have this stuff with Signal: https://whispersystems.org/

Signal I trust over anything else, but the iOS application is pretty awful to use to be honest.

Re: uTox – Free, Secure Instant Messaging

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Post by tetrep » Wed, May 20, 2015, 10:39 PM UTC

I wonder if we'll ever get to the point where projects start advertising what methods they use to weed out memory management bugs (i.e. static analysis, fuzzing, etc) because an adversary that can execute arbitrary code on my machine is far more intimidating than one that can eavesdrop (imo).

Re: uTox – Free, Secure Instant Messaging

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Post by jzelinskie » Wed, May 20, 2015, 10:50 PM UTC

Isn't this a project that was developed by users of the /g/ board on 4chan? I've only ever seen it berated on that board (everything is berated on that board) and don't really know how solid the actual software is.