On 10/26/2017 03:47 AM, Georg Koppen wrote:
- It should support onion service-based chat protocols. Those are a
good showcase for metadata-free chat/messaging and we should support that + convince users to switch to them.
What if took a step back, and actually design and implemented a native Tor protocol reliable messaging layer, within the Onion Service protocol? There a lot of issues related to presence, offline delivery, asynchronous nature of messaging, and encryption that Ricochet ran into as part of their work.
I know there was talk of mix networks on top of Tor, and other DHT/blockchain style efforts like BitMessage can work well over Tor, too.
Ultimately, just moving to HTTP over Onion peer-to-peer messaging, doesn't seem like enough, and definitely would expose a lot of issues on mobile, where expecting a user to be online all of the time is just not a reality.
+n