Ted Smith: > On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 11:42 +0100, t...@lists.grepular.com wrote: >> >> This is not the same as using XMPP over Tor. XMPP requires a trusted >> third party server to handle the relaying. This is P2P direct >> communication using hidden services. It's not real-time IM chat. It's >> SMS style chat (with acceptable delays), and the simplicity of the >> user interface should reflect this. It would look very similar to the >> native SMS app. >> > How is this not the same as using XMPP over XMPP servers hosted on > Android devices over Tor hidden services -- except re-implementing XMPP?
The jabber server has still access to a list of accounts. The server can see a pseudonym with IP/location hidden behind Tor connecting to other jabber ids. The time of sign on and sign off can be logged. Also at which time who wrote a message to whom and the amount of traffic can be logged. Not having a server prevents this third party from gathering such information. > Further, SMS is basically real-time. An SMS app that had hidden-service > type delays (which would be especially bad when roaming between network > connections, causing you to rebuild all of your circuits) would probably > be unusable for all but the most paranoid (which isn't to say you > shouldn't build this). I'd be very much interested to see it in reality. I guess the delays will be more then acceptable. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
