Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by terraforming » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 10:04 AM UTC

Ring, officially a GNU package
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Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by reitanqild » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 10:08 AM UTC

Official web page seems to be https://ring.cx/

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by metilda » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 11:00 AM UTC

Has ring improved much? I remember a few months back it used 28gb of background data over LTE (which was fine since I'm uncapped) on my phone, and was less stable than sflphone, which would randomly stop registering occasionally.

I can recommend pjsip though, very reliable so long as you read its docs before writing a script to leverage it.

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by 0xmohit » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 11:02 AM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #2

Official web page seems to be https://ring.cx/

And https://ring.cx/en/about/practical contains more details about the project.

Source repositories located at https://gerrit-ring.savoirfairelinux.com/#/admin/projects/ (Uses gerrit!)

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by Ruud-v-A » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 12:02 PM UTC

This appears to be something phone-related, not the Ring cryptography library written in Rust based on Boringssl. (https://github.com/briansmith/ring)

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by frumiousirc » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 12:07 PM UTC

What stops attackers from poisoning the DHT? Could one publish false name IP address associations?

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by Rovanion » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 12:15 PM UTC

Ruud-v-A wrote: post #5

This appears to be something phone-related, not the Ring cryptography library written in Rust based on Boringssl. ( https://github.com/briansmith/ring )

Neither is it the Clojure web server library https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring.

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by fulafel » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 1:30 PM UTC

There seems to be no browseable source code around, what are the implementation language(s)? I want to know whether the protocol implementations are written in a memory-safe language.

Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by coolguy132435 » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 1:35 PM UTC

fulafel wrote: post #8

There seems to be no browseable source code around, what are the implementation language(s)? I want to know whether the protocol implementations are written in a memory-safe language.

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Re: Ring, officially a GNU package

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Post by irl_ » Sat, Nov 05, 2016, 1:37 PM UTC

The DHT system for identities is cool, but the thing that gets me is that they don't have support for SRTP with ZRTP, only SRTP with SDES. There's no perfect forward secrecy, and a bunch of other features that ZRTP has.

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