Tor develops its own anonymous IM tool to hide chat from spying eyes
samedi 1 mars 2014 à 10:13 CAFAI, le 01/03/2014 à 10:13
Instantbird was chosen after the TIMB team decided against using Pidgin or libpurple, the GPL open-source instant messaging library used by Pidgin and Adium, mostly because of the amount of effort that would have been required to audit and maintain the library, and also because of some concerns about how seriously Pidgin’s developers took security concerns. The TIMB project will remove libpurple from Instantbird, a task that the Mozilla and Instantbird team were already working toward as they move the software to a pure JavaScript implementation. The first experimental release of TIMB won’t include “off the record” (OTR) capability. OTR mode encrypts traffic further and uses an exchange of digital signatures to verify the identity of each party. But the signatures can’t be checked by anyone outside the instant messaging session and can’t be used to prove identity outside the session. The Tor team is hoping to develop OTR components for Instantbird and get them merged into future versions of the main Instantbird code line.
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Instantbird was chosen after the TIMB team decided against using Pidgin or libpurple, the GPL open-source instant messaging library used by Pidgin and Adium, mostly because of the amount of effort that would have been required to audit and maintain the library, and also because of some concerns about how seriously Pidgin’s developers took security concerns. The TIMB project will remove libpurple from Instantbird, a task that the Mozilla and Instantbird team were already working toward as they move the software to a pure JavaScript implementation. The first experimental release of TIMB won’t include “off the record” (OTR) capability. OTR mode encrypts traffic further and uses an exchange of digital signatures to verify the identity of each party. But the signatures can’t be checked by anyone outside the instant messaging session and can’t be used to prove identity outside the session. The Tor team is hoping to develop OTR components for Instantbird and get them merged into future versions of the main Instantbird code line.
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