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DChat - Peer-To-Peer Chat over TOR
What is it?
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DChat is a chat client which utilizes peer to peer techniques in order to establish
an anonymous decentral network of chat clients over TOR. For that purpose the DChat
protocol is used which has a similar structure to HTTP and which is specified for
the use with TOR. For more information on what TOR is, follow this link:
<https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en>. A detailed description of how
the DChat protocol works can be found in the file called "PROTOCOL".
This DChat client provides an in-chat command interpreter for convenient commands
like connecting to other DChat clients, listing of current contacts, and a lot
more. Commands supported by this client can be found in the man page in section
"Commands".
Since DChat is based on an anonymous decentral network, no central server is
required. Therefore as long as there are clients within the network, the network
will live. This means that, if implemented properly, the DChat protocol takes care
for exchanging contact information between clients accross the network automati-
cally. No user interaction is necessary. Furthermore since DChat will only work
within the TOR network, the location of a user cannot tracked back and the user can
chat anonymously.
The Latest Version
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Details of the latest version probably most interesting for common users can be fo-
und in the file called NEWS.
The file ChangeLog will contain information about the latest source code changes.
Documentation
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The documentation available as of the date of this release is
included in HTML format in the doc/ directory.
Installation
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Please see the file called INSTALL.
Licensing
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Please see the file called LICENSE.
Cryptographic Software Notice
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This distribution may include software that has been designed for use
with cryptographic software. The country in which you currently reside
may have restrictions on the import, possession, use, and/or re-export
to another country, of encryption software. BEFORE using any encryption
software, please check your country's laws, regulations and policies
concerning the import, possession, or use, and re-export of encryption
software, to see if this is permitted. See <http://www.wassenaar.org/>
for more information.
Contacts
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o If you have a concrete bug report for DChat please contact