QTOX SECURITY SOFTWARE

A workaround does exist in the form of tunneling your Tox connections through Tor.

Tox makes no attempt to cloak your IP address when communicating with friends, as the whole point of a peer-to-peer network is to connect you directly to your friends. All traffic over Tox is end-to-end encrypted using the NaCl library, which provides authenticated encryption and perfect forward secrecy. Users have the ability to message friends, join chat rooms with friends or strangers, voice/video chat, and send each other files. Users are assigned a public and private key, and they connect to each other directly in a fully distributed, peer-to-peer network. On July 12, 2014, Tox entered an alpha stage in development and a redesigned download page was created for the occasion. Pre-alpha testing binaries were made available for users from February 3, 2014, onward. The initial commit to GitHub was pushed on June 23, 2013, by a user named irungentoo.

QTOX SECURITY SOFTWARE

A reference implementation of the protocol is published as free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later. The stated goal of the project is to provide secure yet easily accessible communication for everyone. Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. VoIP, Instant messaging, Videoconferencing Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, OpenIndiana, Sailfish OS

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