Briar

Our goal is to enable people in any country to create safe spaces where they can debate any topic, plan events, and organise social movements.

[Briar @BriarApp]

@DeiPlus Briar desktop is already available for windows. For iOS see https://t.co/wpG0fPIAXE

[Briar @BriarApp]

Briar Desktop 0.5.0-beta released - macOS support, private groups and Briar Mailbox https://t.co/Tzm8Mundtq

[Briar @BriarApp]

Today, we officially released Briar Mailbox to improve connectivity between peers: https://t.co/VjbwXDqS1n

[Briar @BriarApp]

@STP_KITT No, see https://t.co/dEto946vBz

[Briar @BriarApp]

Today, we officially released Briar Mailbox to improve connectivity between peers: https://t.co/VjbwXDqS1n

[Briar @BriarApp]

@digest_anon1 @mbrochh @maxtannahill You don't need a mailbox. That's an optional feature. Imagine the extreme case of two users that are never online at the same time (maybe for timezone reasons).

[Briar @BriarApp]

@DeiPlus Without the mailbox, both peers need to be online at the same time (have a connection) to exchange messages. With the mailbox, only the mailbox needs to be online. Messages will be delivered when one peer comes online.

[Briar @BriarApp]

@mbrochh @maxtannahill While you are offline, contacts leave messages for you on your (or their) mailbox. You are hosting that mailbox, typically on an old Android phone: https://t.co/0zMIs4OkA5

[Briar @BriarApp]

@rid0uoff Please see the end of this page: https://t.co/0zMIs4OSpD

[kennyog @kennyog]

.@BriarApp definitely deserves more attention from the research community. They are trying to do something quite challenging with secure ad hoc messaging.

[kennyog @kennyog]

A nice open research challenge is to try to prove the security of Briar’s protocol stack. Tricky given the complex layering involved.

[kennyog @kennyog]

Overall, we are happy to report that Briar had done a pretty good job in their crypto design. Disclosure was very smooth.

[kennyog @kennyog]

Congrats to Yuanming Song on finding these vulnerabilities during his semester project making a “deep dive” on Briar’s cryptographic protocols.

[Briar @BriarApp]

@ETH_en These are the researchers that also did

MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry https://t.co/YFoq6wTyTD
Breaking Threema https://t.co/Ro3QsM0OrL
Breaking Bridgefy https://t.co/5OGSgZMWne

The analysis of Briar didn't get its own homepage.

[Briar @BriarApp]

Three security issues found and fixed
https://t.co/tWzcbHYKdW

[Briar @BriarApp]

The report of the security researchers at @ETH_en is available here: https://t.co/WjwSRfB2YK (PDF)

"These claims, if true, would mean that Briar offers a higher level of security than almost all existing messaging applications."

[Defender 🛡️ Dad @defender_dad]

Found a cool way to repurpose some old tech, side loaded an old version of @BriarApp to run on my ancient q10 to make it a secure mobile messenger and it works pretty well paired with a battery powered travel router it's a neat little package #comms #secure #mobile #offgrid

[Ronaldo Lobato @ronaldolobato]

Researching Android's behavior during Internet shutdowns

https://t.co/TdCRtxg7E2

[Briar @BriarApp]

Briar is in Indian court today: https://t.co/hvLmM7FXnK

[Briar @BriarApp]

Researching Android's behavior during Internet shutdowns
“social mesh” and “public mesh”
https://t.co/wzcHegrbdw