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🌀 i2pchat. Anonymous private secure opensource chat using end-to-end encrypted transport.

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I2PChat

Screenshots

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Features

  • The communication goes «directly over i2p» from client to client, no server is required.[1] Note: The connections to the so-called «seedless» servers were removed from this project ; see : nonlin-lin-chaos-order-etc-etal#40 . —hypn.

How to run it

You need to enable SAM in your router on java i2p configclients page or i2pd's i2pd.conf [sam] section to make I2P Chat work over your I2P router.

Project status, news and history

Project status

Now the development was resumed by Hypnosis-i2p and R4SAS, with a lot more folks as testers & bugs+issues reporters.

Current news

5 Jan, 2017: Original repo at http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git was fully merged here.

History

Original developer of this messenger went away.

License

The license of this software is GPLv2.

Build instructions

  • Install prerequisites:
sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qt5-default build-essential libqt5multimedia5 qtmultimedia5-dev
  • Run qmake for either release:
qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += release"

or for debug:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += debug"
  • And after that,
make -j NUMBER_OF_PROCESSOR_CORES

or simply

make

Running

On Linux, make creates I2P-Messenger executable in the current folder. Run it with ./I2P-Messenger. When ran, switch yourself to online. It will generate your Destination address (a key) on first connect to SAM.

Old files and sites

Forum thread (English)

http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?t=2474

List of relevant repositories (in Russian)

я два репа на гитхабе создал

Footnotes

[1] http://forum.i2p/viewtopic.php?p=11071#11071