I am under the impression that TorChat has been a dead project for some time. https://invisible.im/ adopted Ricochet a little while ago, and I know that it is under active development. Otherwise, diversity in software development is good and new projects taking advantage of the Tor network would be awesome.
Good luck! -- Christopher Sheats Encryption Evangelism Intern ACLU of Washington 901 Fifth Avenue, Suite 630 Seattle, WA 98164 https://aclu-wa.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Down [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 2:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Potential uses for the Tor network On Sun, Oct 4, 2015, at 08:53 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote: > On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:39:13 -0400 > Bryan Gwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > My name s Bryan Gwin (I have my masters in computer science) and I > > have a quick question. Is it possible for someone to design some > > software that can utilize the Tor network (i.e. software that will > > allow users to communicate with each other through the Tor Network > > allowing for private conversations). Is there only one browser that > > can get a list of participating computers and route data through > > them? I am not creating chat software (I have something else in mind > > but the details are irrelevant). If the project is somewhat open > > source, then could something like chat software be made where If one > > person downloads the chat software and another person downloads the > > same software, the first person would be able to use the software to > > communicate with the other person's software through the Tor > > network. Yes or no? If yes, generally how would that work (meaning how > > could the software use the network in a very broad sense). > > You should take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat > > -- > With respect, > Roman > -- More generally, Tor provides an enhanced SOCKS proxy interface, so and application that talks SOCKS can use it. See the design docs. GD -- http://www.fastmail.com - Access your email from home and the web -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
