Thank you for your interest! Don't worry too much about formalities. I like clean tickets and reorganize them if useful. Anyhow, this ticket is very much fine.

answered here:
https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/2#issuecomment-277091439

also created port to ephemeral Tor hidden services / python-stem:
https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/4

In T622#11988, @Patrick wrote:

Thank you for your interest! Don't worry too much about formalities. I like clean tickets and reorganize them if useful. Anyhow, this ticket is very much fine.
answered here:
https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/2#issuecomment-277091439
also created port to ephemeral Tor hidden services / python-stem:
https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/4

Thank you very much, Patrick!

@dau That's awesome :) I was waiting for more competition in the Onion messaging space and I like that you guys are using an extra crypto layer as fallback.

Thanks for letting us know about it. I'll give it a spin and post feedback on Github.

In T622#11996, @HulaHoop wrote:

@dau That's awesome :) I was waiting for more competition in the Onion messaging space and I like that you guys are using an extra crypto layer as fallback.
Thanks for letting us know about it. I'll give it a spin and post feedback on Github.

Thank you @HulaHoop!

I use Whonix daily and I not only want to run unMesssage on it, but I hope it can contribute to Whonix somehow.

Thank you very much for you guys' help, feedback, and well, basically all your work :D

@dau The Tor Project is running a series of blog posts on OS's and programs that make use of their network as part of raising awareness about them in the community. These are short articles that describe what the respective projects are about and their future goals. I want to let them know about unMessage. This will get attention and potentially attract more coders. What do you think? Check with your friend rxcomm and let me know.

In T622#12219, @HulaHoop wrote:

@dau The Tor Project is running a series of blog posts on OS's and programs that make use of their network as part of raising awareness about them in the community. These are short articles that describe what the respective projects are about and their future goals. I want to let them know about unMessage. This will get attention and potentially attract more coders. What do you think? Check with your friend rxcomm and let me know.

Thanks @HulaHoop! I talked to rxcomm and we agree, that's a great idea! unMessage is quite a new project and we expect some teething pains, but we're looking forward to regular users providing feedback. Also, while we believe unMessage is very strong against passive adversaries, not much has been done to deal with active adversaries (especially if the attacker is someone you have already established a conversation with). Suggestions from the community will definitely help with that process as well.

Some good news is that this weekend rxcomm and I were able to work on voice conversations and it went very well. I am currently organizing the code before pushing the changes.

Thank you very much!

:) I'll work on writing a draft and post it for your feedback.

unMessage is an anonymous communication messenger that uses Tor to hide metadata of participants. Its still in early development, however a major new feature such as Tor-to-Tor audio chat (the first such implementation we are aware of) has been included. Major additions like file-sharing support, video conferencing and a portable code-base for mobile platforms are planned.

Our major goal is to provide a better UX and a competitive feature set to move users away from proprietary solutions that don't respect privacy. Though not ready for mass adoption yet, we encourage the more technical audience among you to go ahead try it out. We appreciate any feedback and/or pull requests.

Check us out on Github:

https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage

In T622#12304, @HulaHoop wrote:

unMessage is an anonymous communication program that uses Tor to hide metadata of participants. Its still in early development, however a major new feature such as Tor-to-Tor audio chat (the first such implementation we are aware of) has been included. Major additions like file-sharing support, video conferencing and a portable code-base mobile platforms are planned.
Our major goal is to provide a better UX and a competitive feature set to move users away from proprietary solutions that don't respect privacy. Though not ready for mass adoption yet, we encourage the more technical audience among you to go ahead try it out. We appreciate any feedback and/or pull requests.
Check us out on Github:
https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage

Thanks @HulaHoop, it looks great! For people not familiar with it, I think the first sentence might seem a bit vague. I would use "messenger" (or something like that) instead of just "program". What do you think?

You wrote a nice description of unMessage and exactly what will draw people's attention. Hopefully they will be interested in contributing :)

@dau OK great. included your suggestion.

@Patrick Can you please check with Shaari for publishing?

I waited for the Tor PR guys to get back to me but I'm pretty sure they won't at this point. I went ahead and announced it on our blog and other high traffic mail lists to get more attention.

https://www.whonix.org/blog/announcing-unmessage-next-gen-tor-messenger
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-February/042954.html
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2017-February/016882.html

In T622#12421, @HulaHoop wrote:

I waited for the Tor PR guys to get back to me but I'm pretty sure they won't at this point. I went ahead and announced it on our blog and other high traffic mail lists to get more attention.
https://www.whonix.org/blog/announcing-unmessage-next-gen-tor-messenger
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2017-February/042954.html
https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2017-February/016882.html

@HulaHoop, that's great! It looks like a few people already tested it and hopefully the audience will keep growing!

Thank you so much :)