@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @manyver_se so it only works over tor and Bluetooth?
@blacklight447 @switchingsocial Works over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, two different types of internet servers (Rooms and Pubs), and internet P2P (kademlia distributed hash table)
@manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at yh I was just wondering, as most people think p2p is automatically good for privacy, but they don't realise the normal peer to peer makes it trivial to watch your activities. Using tor would help a ton with this. Do you guys use it over tor? Or inside tor with .onion services?
@blacklight447 @manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at I like using bit torrent sync. That's encrypted and p2p, from what I know it's very private and secure?
@Wetrix @manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at the problem with p2p normally is that you can easily see where traffic originates from and where you are going. For chat apps this is problematic as everyone can see to whom your talking ( where normally only the central server can do that). This is why people also often recommend vpns to use with bittorrent, so it doesn't look like it came from you.
@falgn0n @blacklight447 @manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at
a & b still need a server to find connect each other quickly that's all.
With programs like sync all C knows is that 2 peers it can't identify in Abu way want to connect with one another.
As far as I know sync is even more secure than signal etc because there's no server involved and no way a middle man could ever get access to anything.
@blacklight447 @manyver_se @switchingsocial@mastodon.at
When it comes to bit torrent for trackers yes this is true.
For p2p chat apps like sync this is not the case. It's actually very secure. I use it alot 🙂
might seem a noob question, but:
How can "C" know that "A" and "B" are talking, if their conversation is p2p ?