[liberationtech] An interesting anonymous chat project: Invisible.im

[hellekin]

On 07/10/2014 10:38 AM, Keira Cran wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Invisible.im (http://invisible.im) is a really interesting project
> leveraging Tor to provide anonymous chat. It takes a fascinating
> approach using Tor hidden services, but is yet to be released to the
> public.
> 
> It doesn't hurt that it has an all-star tech lineup as well!
> 
> Best wishes,
> Keira
> 
*** It sounds like the approach taken by Ciboulette [0], to run local
hidden services and federate them.  Although I like the approach, I have
the intuition it's too much effort put on the user: while we're at the
point of installing servers locally to mimic P2P services, why not focus
the effort on advancing GNUnet services directly?

The obvious advantage of GNUnet is that it's not just for chat, but
provides a complete infrastructure ranging from an alternate to DNS, to
HTTP transport, etc. [1]

==
hk

[0] https://github.com/b4zz4/Ciboulette
[1] https://gnunet.org/