[HN Gopher] DeltaTouch, a community created client for Ubuntu Touch
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DeltaTouch, a community created client for Ubuntu Touch
Author : nafnlj
Score : 36 points
Date : 2023-07-03 15:18 UTC (7 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (delta.chat)
| crossroadsguy wrote:
| Isn't this that email chat app? It messed up my mailbox. Never
| again.
|
| Though the UX seemed quite fantastic (at least on iOS; iirc).
| tuuxi wrote:
| depending on usage scenarios, a dedicated account might be the
| better option for Delta Chat. mixed usage might get tricky,
| even though Delta Chat tries to sort "chat messages" to a
| special folder
| yoavm wrote:
| This is a very beautiful study case for open source projects -
| someone needed a client for the niche OS (sorry Ubuntu Touch), so
| they just wrote it. It seems like they've done so without much
| prior experience.
|
| As for Delta Chat - I've tried using it previously and I have a
| vague memory it messed up my inbox a little. Is there a simple
| way to separate the chats from my normal emails? I don't want to
| have a new email in Thunderbird for every instant message I get.
| Is there a solution to that?
| OldManRyan wrote:
| Can you create a category just for Delta Chat messages? I've
| never used Delta Chat but in Gmail you can create categories
| and tabs so I would be able to create a category just for Delta
| Chat messages. Is there some sort of thing like that in
| Thunderbird or whatever email provider you use?
| csears wrote:
| I wasn't familiar with Delta Chat.
|
| "Delta Chat is a new chat app that sends messages via e-mails,
| encrypted if possible, with Autocrypt." [1]
|
| [1]:https://delta.chat/en/help#what-is-delta-chat
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| @dang might want to change the title for us confused souls
| woodruffw wrote:
| I wasn't aware of Autocrypt before this, and its description on
| Wikipedia is not confidence inspiring[1]:
|
| "Key exchange is during the initial handshake and valid or
| invalid keys of peers may be replaced anytime later without any
| user interaction or verification. This makes it very easy to
| exchange new key(s) if a user loses access to the key but also
| makes the protocol much more susceptible to man-in-the-middle
| attacks than clean TOFU."
|
| This is almost the exact opposite of the properties you'd
| normally expect in an attempt to provide encrypted emails, and
| offers neither recoverability nor even _detectability_ for the
| legitimate parties.
|
| [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocrypt
| tuuxi wrote:
| ftr, Delta Chat implements not only Autocrypt but also
| "Counter MITM" to protect against active attacks, see
| https://countermitm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
| woodruffw wrote:
| _Which_ active attacks? This is a large document; from a
| quick look, it doesn 't explain whether it adds pre-shared
| key agreement, whether it's just pinning a TOFU'd key, or
| whether it's doing something entirely different.
| gatane wrote:
| I thought that this was the Doom client
| sezycei wrote:
| I use Delta Chat as my primary IM platform to talk to my wife,
| friends, and family. It's really a great application and WebXDC
| is super neat!
|
| I value it so highly that it's one of only three monthly monetary
| FOSS donations I make.
| phh wrote:
| WebXDC sounds fun, could you tell more about the use-cases you
| found?
| emptysongglass wrote:
| Does your wife, and do your friends and family all use Delta
| Chat to chat with you or their own mail clients?
| rosano wrote:
| possible to interact between normal emails and the app
| https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/8LbrGXKZN70
| out_of_protocol wrote:
| Delta touch is the Doom runner app:
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opentouchg...
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