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In other words, not all OTR clients are created equal, and if you use an IM that uses OTR, then you should pick one that's also serious about security in general. Although this gives OTR great flexibility, in practice it also means that it could be supported by messengers that besides using OTR, have otherwise weak security and are vulnerable to attacks.

It was designed to be a more modular protocol that can be integrated as a plugin into many different instant messengers, both on desktop and mobile.

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OTR is one of the encryption protocols that also poses major problems to the NSA and law enforcement because they can't crack it, according to some leaked documents unveiled last year by Jacob Appelbaum from the Tor Project. Off-The-Record ( OTR), not to be confused with Google Hangouts' own 'Off The Record,' which has nothing to do with the encryption mechanism employed by OTR here, and may or may not keep remnants of people's communications on Google's servers, has been the end-to-end encryption protocol of choice for the past decade, before Signal arrived.

#Tor messenger kali android

The app currently exists only on Android and iOS, but a Chrome extension will come soon, too. Signal is also open source, unlike Silent Phone and Whatsapp, which makes it harder for potential backdoors to hide in the code. Its text encryption protocol has already been adopted by Silent Circle in its Silent Phone app, and Whatsapp (although Whatsapp doesn't let users verify each other cryptographically, which means the encryption could be easily removed either by Whatsapp itself or a man-in-the-middle attack, without the users knowing about it).

Thanks to its default end-to-end encryption, ease of use, asynchronous capabilities (which allows for messages to be sent even after the recipient goes offline), group end-to-end encryption, encrypted call support, and a well-respected team of cryptographers behind it, many believe it's the state-of-the-art in private communications right now. Signal, which launched originally as TextSecure and RedPhone on the Android platform and then came to iOS, and more recently Android as well, is Snowden's and other security experts' end-to-end encrypted messenger of choice.

Recently, the Tor Project announced the Tor Messenger as well, which hides the location of those communicating and encrypts the data end-to-end using OTR. One of the developers from The Intercept also created OnionShare, a Tor-based tool meant to facilitate anonymous sharing of files of any size. Organizations such as New Yorker, ProPublica, The Intercept, The Guardian and Washington Post use it. There is also SecureDrop, which is another Tor-based tool first created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen under the name DeadDrop to help whistleblowers and media entities communicate with each other securely.