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Wow, I had no idea the Tor Project was working on something like this. There really hasn't been a good solution for secure, multi-platform instant messaging. My contacts are fragmented across different services, most of which do not have (let alone enforce) clients with end-to-end encryption. I'm really hoping for some sort of platform that can gain widespread adoption and that isn't restricted to any particular device or OS.

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What is described in the post won't force end-to-end encryption. It is more or less the same as using your current IM client over Tor: you still depend on a server which you may not control and communication between this server and your contact (directly or via your contact's server) may not be encrypted all the way. To be secure you would still need to use OTR, even if your contact also uses a Tor enabled IM client.

Otherwise if you want end-to-end over Tor communication, Ricochet works quite well :).

Yes, I understand that, but AFAIK the only halfway decent client on OS X that supports OTR is Adium, and the UX is really bad. A simpler, more reliable client with OTR is welcomed. The direct integration with the Tor network is the icing on the cake.

The UX is not the biggest issue, but rather the buggy library it is based on. There is an alternative: https://jitsi.org/

tox.im is more what you want I'd say. The DHT means its super easy to use for custom notification solutions IMO.

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