Mesh
Technitium Mesh is a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. Primary aim of developing this instant messenger is to provide privacy which is achieved using cryptography and anonymity using Tor network.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
The last update is from December 2019.
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- No registration required
- Portable
- Decentralized
- End-to-End Encryption
- AES-256 Encryption
- Sync via TOR network
- Encrypted Chat
- Integrated File Sharing
- Multiple Profiles
- Anonymous Chat
- Peer-To-Peer
Tags
- lan-chat
- dht
Mesh News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
Mesh information
Developed by
Technitium Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Alternatives
70 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
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Social & Communications, Security & Privacy, File SharingGitHub repository
- 244 Stars
- 66 Forks
- 8 Open Issues
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What is Mesh?
Technitium Mesh is a secure, anonymous, peer-to-peer (p2p), open source instant messenger designed to provide end-to-end encryption. Primary aim of developing this instant messenger is to provide privacy which is achieved using cryptography and anonymity using Tor network. It can be used over Internet and private LAN networks (without Internet) for instant messaging and file transfer with support for private chats and group chats.
Mesh is based on Bit Chat and is its successor. Mesh takes core ideas from its predecessor and removes a few. Notably, Mesh does not require centralized user registration and provides anonymous profile support using Tor hidden service. It also removes use of BitTorrent trackers for finding peers which was causing issues with Bit Chat since some ISPs blocking BitTorrent traffic would also block Bit Chat traffic. Instead, Mesh relies only on Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) for all purposes.
Mesh allows creating both pure p2p and anonymous profiles with support for running multiple profiles concurrently. Both p2p and anonymous profiles are interoperable such that a p2p profile user can connect with an anonymous profile user via Tor Network.
With Mesh, there is no meta data generated. User identifier is designed in such a way that it can be changed anytime to hide identity. Since, there is no user registration, we don't know who uses Mesh or how many people use it. In p2p mode, the connections use IPv4 or IPv6 connectivity directly to connect with peers without any server in between. With anonymous mode, all connectivity occurs over Tor network and uses Tor hidden service to accept inbound connections.
Comments and Reviews
Automatic detection of users in the local network !
Hello, Why does it requires to contact the team in order to get an account and start using it ? This is never going to spread like uTox or Ring do. I wanted to try, but that's kind of... Disturbing. Good luck anyway.
Well, you can read this link for the answer: https://bitchat.im/faq.html#q2 . It is however possible to use it anonymously by configuring a anonymous proxy or using Tor Network.
That, I understand, but in this situation they need to answer. They never answered to me. Therefore, I can't use their application. Is the project down ?
I am myself the maintainer of this project and I do answer all queries that I receive by email. You can ask me any query that you have in mind. Secondly, the project is still in its early stage and a lot of changes to it are being planned. I am open to suggestions and will be happy to implement whatever is feasible to make this project useful.
Sorry, for the late reply. Okay, I take this into account. Thank you for your answers.