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<h1 class="header">The Tox Project</h1>

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Tox began a few years ago, in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaks regarding NSA

spying activity. The idea was to create an instant messaging application that

ran without requiring the use of central servers. The system would be

distributed, peer-to-peer, and end-to-end encrypted, with no way to disable any

of the encryption features; at the same time, the application would be easily

usable by the layperson with no practical knowledge of cryptography or

distributed systems. During the Summer of 2013 a small group of developers from

all around the globe formed and began working on a library implementing the Tox

protocol. The library provides all of the messaging and encryption facilities,

and is completely decoupled from any user-interface; for an end-user to make

use of Tox, they need a Tox client. Fast-forward a few years to today, and there

exist several independent Tox client projects, and the original Tox core

library implementation continues to improve. Tox (both core library and

clients) has thousands of users, hundreds of contributors, and the project

shows no sign of slowing down.

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Tox is a FOSS (Free and Open Source) project. All Tox code is open source and

all development occurs in the open. Tox is developed by volunteer developers who

spend their free time on it, believing in the idea of the project. Tox is not a

company or any other legal organization. Currently we don't accept donations as

a project, but you are welcome to reach out to developers individually.

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<h2 class="header">Contact</h2>

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This website and other infrastructure such as wiki, blog, etc. are maintained

by some of the long-time contributors of Tox. If you notice that something is

wrong with the tox.chat websites -- send an email to the

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">webmaster</a>. Please do not send emails

asking for general user support with Tox. All such emails will be ignored.

Please use

<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/projecttox/">Reddit forums</a> or

<a href="https://lists.tox.chat/listinfo">mailing lists</a> for general

user support.

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