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It has also been updated to clarify that group text chat is possible with in Tox, but not group voice chat. *Correction 6:30 PM EST : An earlier version of the story referred to the Electronic Frontier Foundation as the Electronic Freedom Frontier.

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'We have about 15 who stare at the code for days or weeks.' 'Right now we're relying on the open source community,' Lohle says.

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'NaCl is a newish library that is nevertheless very highly regarded in the security community, produced by skilled people,' says the Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff technologist Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, who hasn't yet evaluated Tox.īut it's entirely possible to implement good crypto libraries in poor ways, so the Tox team is saving money to hire a professional security firm to audit the code once it reaches a more stable state. Meanwhile, few security experts outside the project have reviewed the Tox code yet, but the project is based on an existing set of code libraries for working with crypto algorithms called NaCl, which has received considerably more attention. But the fix didn't stop a wave of paranoia from sweeping forums, and it's hard to tell how much of that is trolling and how much of it is legitimate concern. The team responded by masking IP addresses through a technology called onion routing - the same technique that the Tor Project uses to protect user anonymity on the web. For example, one Tox developer raised concerns about Tox users exposing their IP addresses to each other. The association has also exposed the project to the trolling and drama characteristic of the forum, which often makes it hard for outsiders to evaluate. The racism, homophobia and misogyny on display on the 4chan on a day to day basis would be a big turn off both for users and potential contributors. 'We also posted on reddit and hacker news, and people joined from that.' He probably has good reason to distance the project from the site. 'We were self-sufficient after only a couple weeks,' he says. Today Lohle downplays Tox's relationship to 4chan. If you want to move your identity from one computer to another, you just copy a single file that includes your private key and contact list. You can add a friend to your contact list by pasting in their public key, and then you just click their name to send them a message, or click the big phone icon to call them. From there, it works very much like Skype.

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You download the client, and it automatically creates a public encryption key that you can provide to everyone, and a private encryption key that you keep on your computer or phone. ΜTox is still rough, but the interface and experience is straightforward. There is no recommended iOS version as of yet, but there there is at least one client available.

µTox, which is available for Linux and Windows, is a the 'bleeding edge' reference design, while qTox is the project's recommendation for OS X users and Antox is the recommended for Android. Eventually, Lohle says, there will be 'official' clients for each major operating system, but for now the team is just recommending a few specific clients. There are at least 10 different Tox messaging and voice clients so far, each supporting a different range of features. That said, the core Tox team is focused on building the features specifically required for building a Skype replacement.

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