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torchat - messenger application on top of the Tor network and it's location hidden services - Google Project Hosting
Further development of TorChat will continue at github, effective immediately. I have not yet decided what should happen to this project page and repository here at googlecode, for now I will just leave it as it is and just not update it any longer, I will mark all downloads as deprecated and eventually remove the project page, close the issue tracker and maybe even commit an rm -rf to the svn repository. Reasons: For quite some time now Google has intentionally been blocking access to this website (code.google.com) to people living in certain countries from a list of countries provided by the US government. This is not acceptable.
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TorChat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TorChat is a decentral anonymous instant messenger that uses Tor hidden services as its underlying Network. It can be used for text messaging and to transfer files to other users. The characteristics of Tor's hidden services take care that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is extremely difficult (if not impossible) to tell who is communicating with whom and where a given client is physically located. In TorChat every user has a unique alphanumeric ID consisting of 16 characters.
For those not familiar, the Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) is Google's API for its Native Client (NaCl) plugin. NaCl, which we covered last year enables developers to run native C and C++ in Chrome 10. The trouble is that Chrome is the only browser with NaCl support, which could lead to Web fragmentation. As Sebastian Anthony writes for Switched : "If NaCl gains enough traction, Chrome could become the next IE6 ." But since NaCl will be available as a plugin for other browsers, perhaps it would be more fair to say that NaCl could become the next Flash or Java.
P2P API Discovered in Latest Builds of Chromium
Opera has been buzzing up our inboxes lately with rather vague press releases on how it planned to "reinvent the web." Well, we've just received concrete confirmation of exactly what that means. Their new product, Opera Unite , "turns any computer into both a client and a server, allowing it to interact with and serve content to other computers directly across the Web, without the need for third-party servers." Opera Unite aims to make hosting and sharing data as simple as navigating around the Internet. It purports to give users greater control of their data while still allowing for easy sharing of files and information between all web-enabled devices.
Opera "Reinvents the Web" with Unite, Makes Every Computer a Server
Web Real-Time Communications Working Group Charter
The mission of the Web Real-Time Communications Working Group, part of the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity , is to define client-side APIs to enable Real-Time Communications in Web browsers. These APIs should enable building applications that can be run inside a browser, requiring no extra downloads or plugins, that allow communication between parties using audio, video and supplementary real-time communication, without having to use intervening servers (unless needed for firewall traversal, or for providing intermediary services). API functions to explore device capabilities, e.g. camera, microphone, speakers (currently in scope for the Device APIs & Policy Working Group ) API functions for decoding and processing (including echo cancelling, stream synchronization and a number of other functions) of those streams at the incoming end,This Could be Big: Decentralized Web Standard Under Development by W3C
Imagine a web where our browsers connected directly to each other to do voice, video, media sharing and run applications, using P2P and real-time APIs, rather than going through centralized servers that controlled traffic and permissions. That's a potent idea and if implemented properly could future-proof a part of the web from authoritarian crack-downs, disruptions by disasters and more. It could also establish a permanent lawless zone of connected devices with no central place to stop anyone from doing anything in particular.