Technitium: Secure, anonymous, P2P, open source, instant messenger

technitium.com

17 points·thunderbong··10 comments

Only windows? That's gonna be a no from me dawg.

I didn't look at the website, but seriously? Only Windows? What world is the author living in? Are they mentally trapped in 2001 or something? Any chat program that doesn't work on smartphones is dead in the water these days.

> Are they mentally trapped in 2001 or something?

Doesn't appear to be the case. A lot of the code is just very old and used to work on linux before Mono dropped support, and the author simply didn't have the spare time to fix it.

https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/Mesh/issues/5

Secure and anonymous, from an entity that hosts their blog on Google?

https://blog.technitium.com/

IMHO, this fails the sniff test.

The instant messengers name is not technitium, its mesh.im (like the URL) - technitium is the name of the group behind it. They also develop a really cool DNS server.

Despite having a bunch of nice sounding keywords in the title I can’t find a lot of evidence that this is anything other than marketing speak.

Looks to be a lot of home rolled crypto by 2-3 random people with no oversight or even unit tests which is the textbook definition of a red flag.

Don’t trust random bullshit you find posted on HN making these kinds of claims to protect your secrets people.

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39024148

Jesus wept.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=thunderbong

How did this make it to the front page?

I think you made dupes

"The software relies on [...] RSA-2048 [...]".

Dumb. The one screenshot shows window decorations for Windows OS. I doubt I'll ever not completely ignore this project and also I will forget I ever looked at it. Into the trash it goes.

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