TorChat
Privacy centered chatting application that utilizes the Tor Network to send and receive messages and data.
- Privacy
- Anonymity networks
Most chat applications ask users to trust a central service with both their identity and their conversation. TorChat was an early experiment in reducing that trust: people could share a room code and talk without attaching their real names to the exchange.
Connections were routed through the Tor network, display names were randomized, and messages disappeared when the session ended instead of being retained by the server. The project was less about adding another messenger and more about asking how little a conversation service truly needs to know about the people using it.