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I guess you've settled on a name, pretty completely, but tox evokes all sorts of bad feelings like "Toxin", "Detox" - generally feelings associated with the idea of poison or of poisoning yourself. From a marketing perspective this might not be the least sinister name you could have chosen. I realize this comes out of 4chan and we make a point of not giving a shit about marketing but...
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This is a good question. What makes it secure ? "encryption" is not enough. Do you have central servers or is it protocol using P2P ? how do you connect one client to another ? What kind of encryption ? How are the key generated, can we change them etc...
"Secure" is a lot of things. "Secure against bulk surveillance" is a big push in a lot of areas, it's a button Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen have been pushing hard for the past year or so. See especially their joint lecture at Columbia Law School in December, 2013, and Schneier's presentation to Stanford Law School in April, 2014 (both are on http://FixYT.com ). Anonymized persistent IDs associated with physical / p…
The main goal of Tox is to make it hard for a global threat to conduct mass surveillance on everyone at the same time without sacrificing performance.
If the majority of the people using Tox have "nothing to hide" and use it because it works better than skype, the minority that does need the crypto will be able to use it without being discriminated against.
Does Tox have plans to offer telephone numbers so that POTS subscribers can call Tox users? If not, I don't see how it can be a replacement for Skype.
I don't post often on HN, but today couldn't resist. Just tested Utox on Windows as well as Toxy, also on Windows. Both programs are totally inaccessible for people using a screenreader and I'm quite sure as well for people using things like speech recognition. Utox seems to be C++ and a GUI framework I didn't look into. Toxy is .NET+WPF... two different stacks, but two inaccessible programs. I'm quite sure the devel…
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As is XMPP. Does Tox actually offer any advantages?
From what I understand, XMPP is decentralized, whereas Tox is distributed. http://cffn.ca/img/articles/Centralized-Decentralized-And-Di...
So, This is pretty cool, however, one thing that I noticed: Addresses are per device. Skype lets you have one name and messages and calls come to all your devices, but as far as I see, Tox is one address per device.
So, This is pretty cool, however, one thing that I noticed: Addresses are per device. Skype lets you have one name and messages and calls come to all your devices, but as far as I see, Tox is one address per device.
I remember reading discussion how to address this problem. I can't for the life of me find it, though.
Here is a breakdown of the different ways they are considering on how to implement it: https://github.com/Quoturnix/ProjectTox-Core/wiki/Multiple-d...
I don't post often on HN, but today couldn't resist. Just tested Utox on Windows as well as Toxy, also on Windows. Both programs are totally inaccessible for people using a screenreader and I'm quite sure as well for people using things like speech recognition. Utox seems to be C++ and a GUI framework I didn't look into. Toxy is .NET+WPF... two different stacks, but two inaccessible programs. I'm quite sure the devel…
I don't post often on HN, but today couldn't resist. Just tested Utox on Windows as well as Toxy, also on Windows. Both programs are totally inaccessible for people using a screenreader and I'm quite sure as well for people using things like speech recognition. Utox seems to be C++ and a GUI framework I didn't look into. Toxy is .NET+WPF... two different stacks, but two inaccessible programs. I'm quite sure the devel…
utox is written in C and uses its own toolkit so that it looks the same everywhere. For that reason it will probably never give you the level of accessibility provided by more mature toolkits.
Can you compare this to Jabber+Jingle?
Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.