Re: [tor-talk] Potential uses for the Tor network

[Christopher Sheats <csheats@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am under the impression that TorChat has been a dead project for some time. https://invisible.im/ adopted Ricochet a little while ago, and I know that it is under active development. Otherwise, diversity in software development is good and new projects taking advantage of the Tor network would be awesome.

Good luck!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Down [mailto:geoffdown@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 2:38 PM
To: tor-talk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Potential uses for the Tor network



On Sun, Oct 4, 2015, at 08:53 PM, Roman Mamedov wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Oct 2015 15:39:13 -0400
> Bryan Gwin <bjg2119@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >  My name s Bryan Gwin (I have my masters in computer science) and I 
> > have a quick question. Is it possible for someone to design some 
> > software that can utilize the Tor network (i.e. software that will 
> > allow users to communicate with each other through the Tor Network 
> > allowing for private conversations). Is there only one browser that 
> > can get a list of participating computers and route data through 
> > them? I am not creating chat software (I have something else in mind 
> > but the details are irrelevant). If the project is somewhat open 
> > source, then could something like chat software be made where If one 
> > person downloads the chat software and another person downloads the 
> > same software, the first person would be able to use the software to 
> > communicate with the other person's software through the Tor 
> > network. Yes or no? If yes, generally how would that work (meaning how could the software use the network in a very broad sense).
> 
> You should take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat
> 
> --
> With respect,
> Roman
> --
 More generally, Tor provides an enhanced SOCKS proxy interface, so and  application that talks SOCKS can use it.
See the design docs.
GD

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