next #deltachat #ios version is coming with #liquidglass 🥛 thanks Amzd for the work. though frustrating being forced by #bigtech to do things that may not be loved and feel superfluous, it's wanted by many meanwhile. there are still some things to tweak, we […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Congratulations and shot out to our long-term collaborators from the @n0iroh project for releasing Iroh V1! A major ugprade of the probably best Peer-to-Peer Rust networking library today: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1 In case you missed it: When running apps like […]

Telegram is an extreme security risk for its users, its developers and operators, holding data and metadata for over a billion people on central servers! Our decentralized zero-metadata messaging approach is diametrically opposed to such big-platform designs […]

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116702145454686241 The world-wide #chatmail relay network is growing in various wonderful ways. #freebsd joined the world-wide federated secure communication party and BSD cafe offers a public relay at https://chatamil.bsd.cafe :) Thanks @stefano @feld and […]

Stefano Marinelli@bsd.cafe · 2mo ago

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe, One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or […]

Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat. It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Impressed by how well @delta works nowadays! I could easily create an account without sharing any details. Connect with a friend's Android based phone as well as an iPhone. we could videocall & send small apps like a game or a shared groceries list. Apparently I can host my own chat relay & […]

It's hard these days to find a unifying description, or know about all the people and communities involved in #deltachat #chatmail #webxdc developments. One shared sentiment probably is wanting to develop anti-authoritarian technologies and cultures around it, and being opposed to authoritarian […]

A note on "#deltachat is going proprietary with #chatmail relays": 1) It's all based on IETF standards, with configuration and custom integration code fully FOSS and documented at: https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/ with hundreds of permission-free deployments. 2) We know of several alternative […]

What do you think is unique about the #deltachat project in the realm of secure cross-platform messaging? You tell us :)

2.51+ releases are rolling into stores: Video/Audio Calls and Channels are not experimental but part of the default feature set now 💫 Calls and channels are always end-to-end encrypted, and only you and your contacts know each other's identity and metadata […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Reminder: There are no accounts in the classic sense anywhere with #chatmail or #deltachat. It's all private profiles on end user devices which co-ordinate in a #p2p fashion. Chat profiles *use* email (relay) addresses for transporting messages through a […] [Original post on chaos.social]

The tale of "convenience" is a bit of a trick. A lot of corporate provided services maybe were somewhat convenient a decade ago, but they are now increasingly authoritarian, and people tend to ignore how much time they steal. Total number of hours spent solving captchas or consent screens with […]

Good news among the bad news! If the recent #0day attacks against Linux kernel+servers were launched against #chatmail relays, privacy of chatting with #deltachat is preserved. Why? Because we already assume the server could be actively hostile, and still not read or see any avatar, names or […]

We don't think any institution or state has the right to prevent families and friends from private chatting, physically or digitally. But the Cyber Authority China (CaC) seems to take offense: - they made Apple remove #deltachat iOS for mainland china - their […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Congrats to #protonmail for beating us on introducing Post-Quantum Cryptography into mail messaging! No worries. We'll implement https://autocrypt2.org which additionally offers reliable deletion / forward secrecy during 2026 :) We are working with Proton cryptographers on OpenPGP […]

RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/116505223145222985 All of the advances in #deltachat apps and the growth of the #chatmail relay network, wouldn't be possible without public funds and private donations, an estimated 800K EUR in 2026 ❤️ money goes to ~16 FOSS contributors with no money left for […]

Delta Chat@delta.chat · 3mo ago

We’ve been busy building and releasing but it’s high time to share some major news: @sovtechfund is investing nearly €500K into #chatmail This 18-month commitment supports chatmail maintainers keeping the core infrastructure secure and evolving, which is the backbone for: #DeltaChat […]

We’ve been busy building and releasing but it’s high time to share some major news: @sovtechfund is investing nearly €500K into #chatmail This 18-month commitment supports chatmail maintainers keeping the core infrastructure secure and evolving, which is the backbone for: #DeltaChat […]

Parla is no longer depending on DeltachatDesktop to work, it's now able to create, transfer profiles and relays by itself. Looking forward distros to help me draw the best way to ship a separate jsonrpc server, maybe even sandboxed separately from the UI app […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

"it's always the receiver that determines the meaning of a message" is a famous opening quote at the first symposium on self organizing systems in Chicago, 1959. This and many other findings from those circles re-appear in our day to day discussions. We are doing next steps towards automating […]

Making sure that deleted messages are actually deleted and unrecoverable is more involved than most folks think. The FBI could recently recover deleted Signal messages from an iOS phone because the notifications you see on your phone were stored in an extra database. Apple has now fixed this […]

#deltachat user profiles are private and invisible to the public. No one can discover you, or your children, via phone numbers or any other public handle. Chat profiles exist only on user devices. No PIN and no "SMS verification code" ever asked or needed. The lack of "public discovery" also […]

This morning nine.testrun.org was briefly unavailable, some network problem. A good time to remind everyone to add a second relay to your #deltachat app: 1. Go to https://chatmail.at/relays randomly choose one of the listed relay pages and copy the invitation code to your clipboard 2. In delta […]

"Popularity is overrated" is an often occuring phrase in our circles. Which is of course nonsense because only what is popular, counts, right? Only what everybody else does is a valid choice, right? #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are used in private places and […] [Original post on chaos.social]

Apart from the new #Gnome effort, there also is an interesting experiment of a #Rust terminal-client with #Ratatui -- for others to start from should they feel they need some enjoyable distraction :) https://git.sakamoto.pl/j-g00da/deltarat-experiments #Chatmail clients typically use the Rust […]

Here we go! The first release of my native Delta Chat client for GNOME is out! https://github.com/trufae/deltachat-gnome/releases/tag/0.2.0 cc @delta @gnome i'm using it in daily basis, and it's quite stable right now, but still lacks many features from the […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

What if all public funding and all private donations to our efforts stop tomorrow? Users should be fine for years thanks to the wonderful world-wide community of #chatmail relay operators 💜 Relays are dirt cheap to run. Also, our developments are much cheaper and less complex compared to what […]

RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/115866917974514933 Do you want to live in a world where private digital communication is not possible anymore? That's a growing reality for many people world-wide. Private communication is extremely important to salvage into the digital realm and it's not just […]

Delta Chat@delta.chat · 7mo ago

Our stance simplified: we want to make private communications available to anyone on the planet. Problem: governments everywhere tend to want to control and contain private communications. While Iran and Russia might be contemporary poster examples trying to control private communication […]

#deltachat contributors range from age 16 to 65, spanning diverse genders and even more countries and cultures. We have many discussions, and also conflicts but we usually don't carry those out in big public groups but rather go for 1:1s and generally small-group discussions. There is no central […]

Under the hood, we are using IETF Internet Messaging specifications commonly tagged as "email". Sounds old, right? Actually there is a lot of new stuff going on! For example, #chatmail apps now fully support: - RFC9788 ("Header Protection") to achieve minimal metadata - RFC9580 ("OpenPGP") to […]

After three intense months of work from more than a dozen contributors, #deltachat 2.48 releases are rolling. Maybe the most feature-packed releases ever? - "zero metadata" messaging - native Audio/Video calls on Android and iOS, as well as UbuntuTouch - Group and Channel descriptions - A […]