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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: awakened350 on July 18, 2012, 11:39 am

Title: Bitwise Encrypted IM
Post by: awakened350 on July 18, 2012, 11:39 am

I've used OTR for IM up till now but it would be nice to use a serivce that is encrypted and P2P. Has anyone used http://www.bitwiseim.com/signup.php ?

I've heard of it in the past but dont have any hard facts on how secure it is.

Title: Re: Bitwise Encrypted IM
Post by: Bungee54 on July 18, 2012, 01:33 pm

Please check out WASTE - Darknet

it?s P2P and encrypted and pretty private :)


very cool thing !

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Post by: StExo on July 18, 2012, 03:22 pm

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Title: Re: Bitwise Encrypted IM
Post by: awakened350 on July 18, 2012, 09:56 pm

Oh wow I remember using waste to share files among a big group of friends. I completely forgot it had chat too.

Title: Re: Bitwise Encrypted IM
Post by: awakened350 on July 18, 2012, 11:37 pm

Quote from: Guru on July 18, 2012, 12:26 pm

Quote from: awakened350 on July 18, 2012, 11:39 am

I've used OTR for IM up till now but it would be nice to use a serivce that is encrypted and P2P. Has anyone used http://www.bitwiseim.com/signup.php ?

I've heard of it in the past but dont have any hard facts on how secure it is.

First off, OTR is open-source, and was designed by Ian Goldberg, if memory serves -- Goldberg knows his stuff. 

On the other hand, These other dudes are an unknown quantity. It was not immediately apparent that their software is open-source. Finally, their site requires Javascript to operate -- that, to me at least, is a red flag.  Personally, I wouldn't touch it.

Guru

Any thoughts on the best protocol to use with OTR? I love OTR I just would rather there not be sever side logs with all my encrypted messages. Sure they are encrypted but I'd rather logs not exist at all.