URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/task/?16596>
Summary: Submission of simphone
Group: Savannah Administration
Submitter: simphone
Submitted: Thu 24 Oct 2024 04:01:46 AM UTC
Should Start On: Thu 24 Oct 2024 12:00:00 AM UTC
Should be Finished on: Sun 03 Nov 2024 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category: Project Approval
Priority: 5 - Normal
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Date: Thu 24 Oct 2024 04:01:46 AM UTC By: simphone <simphone>
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= Registration Details =
* Name: *simphone*
* System Name: *simphone*
* Type: non-GNU software and documentation
* License: GNU Lesser General Public License (There aren't any hidden
commercial features, and no promotion of non-free software. We chose to also
support non-free operating systems only because they are popular and are
already supported by the GNU toolchain, so it was easy to do.
But any user who runs Simphone on Windows 10 or newer receives an initial
warning that their OS includes spyware.
)
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== Description: ==
Simphone is a secure decentralized instant messager, which implements chat
messages, file transfer and audio calls.
It compiles and runs on GNU/Linux and other free operating systems, and on a
couple of non-free ones, by using GNU tools (g++, gnu make and autoconf).
Released binaries are easily reproducible from the source code, so they are
provably guaranteed to be backdoor-free. Additionally, there is a
self-extracting shar.gz file, which provides one-step compilation on any free
operating system.
The implementation supports 256-bit cryptographic security with perfect
forward secrecy, double authentication, trust on first use and optional voice
verification of contacts. The code is divided into a core library, written in
C and a GUI written in C++. The core library has a documented API.
The features of Simphone are too numerous to list in 20 lines, so for further
information perhaps you could have a quick look into our documentation
(available in the doc subdirectory inside the source code archive).
== Other Software Required: ==
All media files (icons) are original (non-derived) work and subject to LGPL
along with the rest of the source code. The only external dependency (other
than the GNU compiler toolchain and GNU standard libraries) is Qt5, which is
also free (LGPL and other free licenses): www.qt.io
There are a few small libraries as internal dependencies (all
LGPL-compatible), which are packaged with the Simphone source code. This is
necessary mostly because important security patches to these libraries have
been added by us and applied there.
== Other Comments: ==
We have hosted Simphone on OSDN for the last four years, but unfortunately are
no longer happy with that site. Would be glad if we could move it to Savannah.
A mercurial repository would be needed.
If there are any questions or issues to resolve with the source code, we'd be
happy to cooperate. There's a new version of Simphone coming soon and it won't
be a problem to update a few more things with the release.
== Tarball URL: ==
http://www.simphone.org/0.9.3/simphone-src-0.9.2.tar.gz
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