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[?]xoron :verified: » 🌐
@xoron@infosec.exchange

Browser-Based Euro Office Clone

This is an experimental, local-first project designed to demonstrate client-side managed functionality without requiring any setup. By leveraging the FileSystem API, it offers a unique approach to storing files directly on your device from your browser.

Current Features:
- PWA (Progressive Web App)
- Local-first storage
- Word processor
- Spreadsheet tool
- PDF capability

Coming Soon:

- Support for more file types
- Storage synchronization
- Collaborative editing
- Encryption at rest
- P2P file-transfer

Long-Term Goals (Clones of):
- NextCloud
- WhatsApp
- Instagram
- WeTransfer

Note: This project is experimental, far from finished, and presented strictly for testing, feedback, and demo purposes (USE RESPONSIBLY!).

Check out the demo version and let me know your thoughts!

Demo: enkrypted.chat/?tab=file

    [?]Hermit Crab Craig » 🌐
    @craigoverend@mastodon.social

    Listening to SOLARCAST.cc with Zelf@sunbeam.city and Aljosha-Meyer.de talk willowprotocol.org and worm-blossom.org -addressing -first

    💩 -> 🦄

    solarcast.cc/media/podcasts/so

      [?]zerionchat » 🌐
      @zerionchat@mastodon.social

      Zerion 2.0.3 is now live on F-Droid, Play Store and GitHub. This is our most stable release yet.

      What’s in it: reliable voice calls in both directions, video calls as opt-in beta, faster startup, and lower battery use during sync.

      F-Droid: f-droid.org/packages/com.profe
      GitHub: github.com/zerionproject/Zerio
      Play Store: play.google.com/store/apps/det

        [?]Adhidarma Hadiwinoto :verifyc: » 🌐
        @adhisimon@mastodon.kodesumber.com

        One bigest risky problem with any kind of peer-to-peer (p2p) that many users don't realize is about leaking your IP.

        Yes, no central server may sound good. But direct p2p bring other problems. When using central server as a relay, only the central server knows your IP, not your p2p partner. But as we move to p2p, your partner will knows itu because communication will be direct between you and your partner.

        Unfortunately, most messaging apps use p2p communication for voice/video call to optimize latency and they don't warn users about the risk of ip leaks. At least, on we can enable relaying so our IP address protected.

        But there's no option about it on

        Unfortunately it will be hard to implemented call relay on deltachat, because it doesn't have central server. Maybe we need to create public relay server to accomodate it.

        The simplest solution is to allow user to disable call feature.

        cc:
        @delta @adbenitez@mastodon.de @adbenitez@masto.es

          [?]Agregore Browser » 🌐
          @agregore@mastodon.mauve.moe

          New release is out! Now you can go to `agregore://sites` to see which sites you've created or loaded. From there you can explore their files or purge the data. github.com/AgregoreWeb/agregor

          Screenshot of a page navigated to agregore://sites with two tables. "locally created" shows two sites with dweb_scratchpad and scraped_sites.

The remotely loaded table contains "agregore.mauve.moe".

The top of the page says "This page lets you see what P2P sites you've loaded locally and allows you to browse their files or purge their data."

          Alt...Screenshot of a page navigated to agregore://sites with two tables. "locally created" shows two sites with dweb_scratchpad and scraped_sites. The remotely loaded table contains "agregore.mauve.moe". The top of the page says "This page lets you see what P2P sites you've loaded locally and allows you to browse their files or purge their data."

            [?]Agregore Browser » 🌐
            @agregore@mastodon.mauve.moe

            Interested in and ? Want to contribute to software?

            Check out our "good first issue" project board and see if something sparks your interest.

            github.com/orgs/AgregoreWeb/pr

              [?]Agregore Browser » 🌐
              @agregore@mastodon.mauve.moe

              Interested in collaborating on web tech but don't want to deal with Discord's ID verification? Come join our channel instead!

              matrix.to/#/#agregore:mauve.mo

                [?]Hermit Crab Craig » 🌐
                @craigoverend@mastodon.social

                @retro @cypherpunk The only browser I know of still being developed is @agregore by @mauve

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                  [?]retro » 🌐
                  @retro@soc.octade.net

                  It seems that development of browsers has fallen by the wayside. When they first appeared some years ago they seemed like a great addition to toolkits.

                  For example Beaker Browser and Impervious Browser seem to have been shelved several years hence.

                  Are there any other peer-to-peer browsers worth inspection?

                  @cypherpunk@soc.octade.net

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                    [?]xoron :verified: » 🌐
                    @xoron@infosec.exchange

                    WhatsApp Clone, but Decentralized with P2P Messaging

                    App: Enkrypted.Chat

                    "Secure and private" is the general goal.

                    This is a technical/concept demo of a fairly unique approach using a browser-based, local-first and webrtc.

                    This is intended to introduce a new paradigm in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

                    Features:

                    * P2P
                    * End to end encryption
                    * Signal protocol
                    * Post-Quantum cryptography
                    * File transfer
                    * Local-first
                    * No registration
                    * No installation
                    * No database
                    * TURN server

                    Feel free to reach out for clarity instead of diving into the docs/code.

                    IMPORTANT: While this is aiming to provide a secure experience, it isnt audited or reviewed. **Shared for testing, feedback and demo purposes only.** Please use responsibly.

                      [?]iroh » 🌐
                      @n0iroh@mastodon.social

                      4 years, 65 versions, and now iroh 1.0. Here's to the next chapter and stability: a wire protocol you can depend on, with plenty of incremental features on the roadmap.

                      Dial keys, stay connected.

                      iroh.computer/blog/v1



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                        [?]Delta Chat » 🌐
                        @delta@chaos.social

                        Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with or .

                        It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a federated e2ee-restricted SMTP network.

                        A chat profile or chat group has zero data on the server. It's radically different from classic email servers, Whatsapp, Signal, XMPP and Matrix servers which host and control chat identity.

                        Neo-spoon meme (scene from matrix movie where neo looks at a child bending a spoon which eventually tells him "there is no spoon") with the following words top: "On which server is your account?" and below the bending spoon "there is no account."

                        Alt...Neo-spoon meme (scene from matrix movie where neo looks at a child bending a spoon which eventually tells him "there is no spoon") with the following words top: "On which server is your account?" and below the bending spoon "there is no account."

                          [?]Milk in the name of Bob 🦫 » 🌐
                          @Milk31@mastodon.social

                          Sia: Decentralized Cloud 🦫
                          Testing Sia. Your encrypted files stored on independent hosts' computers worldwide. 50 GB free.
                          Upload file, system spreads pieces to hosts, they store and get paid.
                          Pros: privacy, decentralization, no tracking.
                          Cons: app has bugs.
                          sia.storage
                          In the name of Bob 🦫

                            [?]adz » 🌐
                            @adz@post.lurk.org

                            Two more p2p lectures coming up at @offline ! Starting each at 19:00

                            ✦ 08.05.26 Mesh Networks & Encryption
                            We continue here from last time focusing on the cryptography in mesh networks.

                            ✦ 09.06.26 Identity Systems
                            Covering some approaches in handling user identities in p2p systems, DiDs, "trust" networks, petname systems, problems around privacy and anonymity, especially in combination with immutable data types

                            ⁉ 👉 pads.offline.place/p/r.06dda24

                              [?]adz » 🌐
                              @adz@post.lurk.org

                              Tomorrow is another lecture series event at @offline in

                              ✦ 09.06. 19:00 Identity Systems!

                              We look into petname systems, multi-device setups, the decentralized identifier (DID) standard and privacy problems arising with attaching your identity "forever" to immutable data-types.

                              And I'm sure much more will come up as soon as we start!

                              More info here: pads.offline.place/p/r.06dda24

                                [?]iroh » 🌐
                                @n0iroh@mastodon.social

                                The final countdown: iroh v1.0-rc.1 is now ready. Please test it! If you don't report anything serious it'll be called 1.0 in two weeks time.

                                  [?]xoron :verified: » 🌐
                                  @xoron@infosec.exchange

                                  Enkrypted.Chat

                                  This is intended to introduce a unique approach in client-side managed secure cryptography. We can avoid registration of any sort.

                                  Features:

                                  PWA
                                  P2P
                                  End to end encryption
                                  Signal protocol
                                  Post-Quantum cryptography
                                  Multimedia
                                  File transfer
                                  Video calls
                                  Local-first
                                  No registration
                                  No installation
                                  No database
                                  TURN server

                                  reddit.com/r/positive_intentio

                                  Send Messages Securely. No cloud. No trace.
Decentralized P2P encrypted messaging - No setup required

                                  Alt...Send Messages Securely. No cloud. No trace. Decentralized P2P encrypted messaging - No setup required

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                                    [?]Geek Realm Hub » 🌐
                                    @geekrealmhub@mastodon.social

                                    eMule is back, reborn as aMule 3.0.0. 380x faster downloads.

                                    5 years of silence, broken. 🔥

                                    What this means for P2P is bigger than you think.
                                    geekrealmhub.com/amule-3-0-0-f

                                      [?]Luca Sironi » 🌐
                                      @luca@sironi.xyz

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                                      [?]Pure Acetone » 🌐
                                      @pureacetone@qoto.org

                                      ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                      **First entry into RetroShare: how to find peers**

                                      In RetroShare you don’t “find people” in the usual sense. You don’t search — you agree. This is a fundamental mindset shift; without it, the first launch will always feel empty.

                                      The first thing to accept: there is no global lobby in RetroShare. The emptiness after installation is not a bug, but the honest state of a network without links. Until you have trusted contacts, you literally have no network.

                                      **The basic method — out-of-band contact.**
                                      Peers are found outside RetroShare. These are friends, colleagues, members of thematic communities, people from Matrix, XMPP, IRC, Mastodon, forums — any place where key exchange can happen safely. RetroShare does not start with a “search” button, but with the phrase: “here is my key.”

                                      **The second path — a control peer.**
                                      The most reliable way for first entry is a second instance you control, or a pre-arranged experimental partner. This removes uncertainty: if the connection fails, the issue is technical, not social.

                                      **The third path — thematic islands.**
                                      There are small RetroShare communities built around ideas: privacy, P2P, darknet research, offline activism. They are not widely advertised because the network is not designed for random influx. Entry always starts with dialogue, not a click.

                                      **What does not work.**
                                      Publishing keys into the void. Waiting for someone to add you. Relying on auto-discovery. This is centralized-network thinking applied to a system where it has no meaning.

                                      **How to know you’ve found a peer.**
                                      The contact comes online. The connection stabilizes. Services start working: chat, forums, file exchange. At that point RetroShare stops being an abstraction and becomes an environment for communication.

                                      **Bottom line:**
                                      in RetroShare, people appear first —
                                      and only then does the network emerge.

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                                        [?]zerionchat » 🌐
                                        @zerionchat@mastodon.social

                                        We wrote an honest comparison of Zerion against Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, Wire, Session, Cwtch and Tox.

                                        Honest meaning: Signal gets credit for pioneering post-quantum key exchange, Cwtch is genuinely close in spirit, and each app is the right call for some threat model.

                                        Where Zerion stands alone: post-quantum encryption on every single message, and everything (including calls) over Tor.

                                        zerion.chat/blog/zerion-vs-mai

                                          [?]Sudo » 🌐
                                          @ImpracticalPrivacy@mastodon.social

                                          Let's talk architecture, not anecdotes. 🧱

                                          Centralization is fragile. In Ep. 30 of Impractical Privacy, we are stripping back the myths:

                                          🔗 Public Blockchains & CEX Funnels

                                          💬 Metadata Whispers & E2E Fallacies

                                          📡 P2P Mesh Networks

                                          🌐 The math behind NAT Hole Punching and sovereignty.

                                          Tune in for the deep dive into truly resilient networking.
                                          👇
                                          ImpracticalPrivacy.com

                                          AI Generated Image.

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                                            [?]Truth & Answers » 🌐
                                            @collective_truth@mastodon.social

                                            @aral Wish you would do more people work - /circle groups in /

                                            Worst is people not improving amongst the good and just pointing the bad stuff (you're doing GREAT but not transferring / developing other people).

                                            / without good people sharpening / helping others up are low-level communicative users 1-way posting here and using better soft.

                                            *** Develop people also ! ***
                                            **********************
                                            (Would love to help / just need a bit of in a few)

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                                              [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                                              /// Some apps for secure and anonymous communication and file-sharing ///

                                              Inform your friends and family about these tools.

                                              ... https://briarproject.org

                                              "Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

                                              ... https://retroshare.cc

                                              "Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on , , and . There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

                                              ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

                                              "Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

                                              ... https://onionshare.org

                                              "OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

                                              ... https://delta.chat

                                              "Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

                                              ... https://bitmessage.org

                                              "Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

                                              ... https://www.torproject.org/download

                                              "Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

                                              ... https://geti2p.net

                                              "The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

                                              ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

                                              "Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

                                              ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

                                              "BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

                                              ... https://darkmx.app

                                              "DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."


                                                [?]xoron :verified: » 🌐
                                                @xoron@infosec.exchange

                                                Building secure peer-to-peer messaging apps is tough, and it's even tougher to get people to switch from what they already use. I've noticed that a great user interface and an intuitive design often matter more to people than terms like cryptography or end-to-end encryption.

                                                That's why I've started building a UI library to tackle this head-on! It's a work in progress, but the goal is to create a more welcoming and seamless experience for new users.

                                                Check out the UI library here: ui.positive-intentions.com

                                                And you can see a live demo of the UI in action here: glitr.positive-intentions.com

                                                I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback as I continue to shape it!

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                                                  [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                  @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                  If you are using P2P file sharing software (besides bittorrent) please post links to the software with your opinion.

                                                  @infostorm@a.gup.pe @p2p@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe @networks@a.gup.pe

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                                                    [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                    @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                    Many people have never heard of P2P file-sharing networks like DarkMX even though DarkMX and its predecessor, WinMX, have over two decades of continued development. P2P file-sharing networks are more stable than torrents. DarkMX has a very slick retro interface. It is almost identical to the old WinMX from 20+ years ago, except it brokers all connections via TOR for preserving privacy.

                                                    I figured out several ways to run DarkMX on a headless server without GUI. This allows me to install it on a remote server without any desktop environment and run the software as a daemon without the GUI.

                                                    First I used the X forwarding feature of SSH to pipe the GUI to a local machine. On that machine I did all the configuration inside the GUI. Then I closed the program.

                                                    Then on the remote machine I used 'xvfb' to run DarkMX as a nohup'd daemon with a dummy GUI buffer. That way I don't need to be connected to the GUI from a local machine and the application will still run. It also uses less RAM without the GUI.

                                                    There are other ways to do this, such as VNC and xpra. I just chose the quickest, dirtiest method in this case.

                                                    Why would I go to all that trouble? Well, I don't need to, but there are some people who might need to publish while maintaining strict anonymity. So they would need tools like DarkMX and TOR. For me it's just fun.

                                                    DarkMX operates over the TOR privacy preserving network. As a result the location of my peer is hidden and extremely hard to impossible for an adversary to locate. So when I publish something, such as a letter, or paper, or opinion, anyone can download it since censoring it is not viable. It ensures that my speech remains free and available to the general public. Now when I author essays, papers, homiles and such, I can publish them as file shares, and I can publish them simultaneously as a TOR hidden website with the built-in webserver feature. So readers don't need DarkMX to read my files--they can just fire up TOR Browser or use a TOR proxy with their web browser. If they want to snarf a whole directory they can install DarkMX, or use a script to snarf them via TOR.

                                                    If you are inclined to fiddle around with installing this software on a headless server, please share the techniques and tools used that suit you.

                                                    (DarkMX download site: https://darkmx.app)

                                                    @selfhosted@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe @darknet@a.gup.pe infosec@a.gup.pe

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                                                      [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                                                      @octade@soc.octade.net

                                                      The dev that maintains Tixati also maintains DarkMX.

                                                      DarkMX is the continuation of WinMX. It is a peer-to-peer network with built-in web sites, file sharing, chat, all secured over the anonymous TOR protocol.

                                                      DarkMX and its predecessor have over 20 years of battle hardening. Run in a jail or container, it is a set it and and forget it way to ensure your data is made available to the network 24/7.

                                                      https://darkmx.app