No spam and no identifiers (phone number, email, ids, etc.) by design. Local encrypted sign-in. Your whole chat system-in-a-file .zip. Disposal, one-time, connections. This is awesome!
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They actually had security audit done by Trail of bits. Here’s a link to their reddit post
Having unique one-time (non-reusable) invite ID is great.
The wat SimpleX uses one-way queues, and then distributes those queues among servers offers a way to mitigate communication correlation (if the servers are independent and won’t collude). Or you can just self host and not worry. Self hosting an onion service is easy.
Running SimpleX through a tor proxy (or VPN) offers even more advantages (if you think you need them).
Perhaps the only downside is SimpleX still controls who gets to be a public server (anyone can self host or offer servers, but they won’t be integrated). I have no way of knowing if the servers are owned by a single entity. This part is not “open”.
Open source?
yes it’s open source
Simplex doesn’t need phone number so its different from signal
This is not a new Signal, this makes Signal obsolete.
How so?
I tried SimpleX Chat, and saw it requires the other person to be on-line, maybe that will change ? The project looks promising. I think they wanted to get more money to have a security audit done for the source code.
it’s only for the initial connection
Thanks
Here a security audit (Read on Lobste.rs today) : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/trailofbits/publications/master/reviews/SimpleXChat.pdf
I really like the concept but I never managed to convince anyone in real life to use it with me. lmao
Edit: I’ve just realized this post is from 7 months ago; why did someone bump this now?
It’s happening everywhere. The default sort on many of these apps is “hot” and posts from years ago are being shown like they’re new.
I just read the whitepaper. I didn’t understand everything, but it sounds pretty good. I’d try it out, but sadly looks like they don’t have any desktop clients :/
Looks good in principle! I’ve yet to try using it with anybody.
This ? Already existed? Isn’t this like Olvid?
Looks nice! Is it self-hostable? Or I guess because it’s decentralized, the chat history/ etc is saved only between clients?
