Anno domini 2020 Mon, 23 Mar 23:00:57 +0100 Florian Zieboll scripsit: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 16:58:58 +0100 > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <dr.kl...@gmx.at> wrote: > > > Anno domini 2020 Mon, 23 Mar 15:14:15 +0100 > > Florian Zieboll scripsit: > > > > > May I ask for your tangible opinion > > > on / experience with qtox resp. the tox protocol in general? > > > > Hi Florian! > > > > No irony intended :) I use tox myself for basicly anything that > > otherwise would be done face2face. The thing I especially like is > > that you do not have to create an account on a centralized server. > > Just create an ID, send it do somebody, accept his/her invitation and > > that's it. I've made a small script that fires up qTox when I plug in > > my usb headset :) > > > > @protocol: well, it works. Is it secure? Kind of, did no analysis of > > it. Compared to mumble (which I had running 3 years ago) it's fine > > with low bandwidth (chat and audio, video is another thing), I can > > publish a screen or a defined region as video source (which is great > > for teaching), and there are no offline messages (email is for > > offline). > > > > Nik > > > Hallo Nik, > > thank you very much for your feedback! I just had started testing it > (with qtox for Linux and trifa for Android) but felt somewhat unsure if > I'd want to "spread the word" due to the quite negative connotation of > the German Wikipedia article [1], and an LWN.net article [2] about some > trouble within the core developing team.
Well, LWN article was 5 years ago (2 years after start of project), so that's like trojan war news :) And wikipedia .. well, it' wikipedia, isn't it? Nik > > I like the "serverless" p2p concept very much and was impressed how > well it performs - and also of qtox's "feature completeness". As tox > uses common crypto libs (libnacl / libsodium), I hope that the > mentioned security issues have been mitigated - and even if not, I am > confident that a wider use of it will move it more into focus of > possible security auditors. > > Best regards and libre Grüße, > Florian > > > [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tox_(Protokoll) > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/651003/ > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
