Tox: next level of Instant Messaging

23 points

12 years ago

The internet was made for communication. But talking with your friends, in a safe, reliable way, is much harder than it should be. Secure, FOSS communication methods usually suffer from obscurity, and are typically still centralized, forcing the user to trust a server or to set up their own. We think it's time that security and simplicity came together, available to everyone. Tox is an encrypted, peer-to-peer network for instant messaging, calling, and videochatting, one-on-one or in groups. Tox is a core protocol and API that anyone can make a client for. Existing clients are listed on http://wiki.tox.im/Clients, including:

• a cross-platform GTK client (https://github.com/naxuroqa/Venom)

• a cross-platform Qt client (https://github.com/nurupo/ProjectTox-Qt-GUI)

• an OS X client (https://github.com/stal888/Poison)

• an iOS client (https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity)

• an Android client (https://github.com/Astonex/Antox)

• an ncurses-based terminal client for Unix-likes ( https://github.com/Tox/toxic )

The Tox core has been shared all over the internet by inspired enthusiasts, and has drawn the attention of many developers. However, the clients haven't received nearly the same amount of publicity, and their developers need help to bring easy, secure communication to the masses. And since the core is a simple protocol library with an API (and with bindings available for many other languages), you can start your own client too. If you fancy yourself more of a low-level programmer, help with the core is always appreciated: https://github.com/irungentoo/ProjectTox-Core Developers are always present over at #tox-dev on freenode. For the API: http://api.libtoxcore.so/

Thank you for your time,

- https://tox.im/

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