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Enhancing Operational Security Through Tor Messenger Chat App

Calendar Nov 02, 2015 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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cryptography secure messaging digital privacy operational security chat application OTR protocol

On Thursday, the Tor Project released its first public beta of Tor Messenger, an easy-to-use, unified chat app that has security and cryptography baked in. If you care about digital security, you should ditch whatever chat program you're using and switch to it right now.

The app is specifically designed to protect location and routing information (by using Tor) and chat data in transit (by using the open source Off-The-Record, or OTR, protocol). For anyone who has used a similar app (like Pidgin or Adium), Tor Messenger