delta chat on phones and pc computers
Can you run delta chat anonymously
through tor?
Thank you.
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It depends on whether your email account is anonymous and if you have the knowledge on how to route an applications traffic through tor.
Maybe there are some email providers that offer email on .onion domains.
Delta Chat on mobiles does not support routing through TOR – on Desktop you might be able to configure your networking to use TOR for Delta Chat’s network connections but i don’t have first hand experience about this.
Apart from this there are preliminary communications about porting Lightnion (a research prototype from EPFL in Lausanne) from Javascript to Delta Chat’s Rust core library which would make TOR connectivity would become available on all platforms – even with resilience against global traffic analysis and thus better compared to what TOR provides. That effort needs a champion and is not imminent, though.
email account is anonymous
If you register an email account through tor, I would expect it to be
an anonymous email address.
does not support routing through TOR
Meaning there are no settings in delta chat to set socket ports?
might be able to configure your networking to use TOR for Delta Chat’s network connections
That could be proxychains?
The center of my question is, if delta chat’s data transfers are relayed through
tor, then the delta chat program itself does not display data which
will compromise the anonymity which tor provides?
On a broader level it is about who can benefit from utilizing delta chat? If
delta chat in a few steps would be able to do anonymous encrypted
end 2 end communication, delta chat would get an option for journalists and
activists.
What I suggest is not building tor into delta chat. Adding socket proxy
settings to delta chat could be an option. Following instructions people
could then install tor on their computer, admittedly not a simple task
for everyone, and set the tor ports in delta chat’s socket proxy
settings.
There is an existing feature request for SOCKS: Socks4/5 and HTTP proxy support
Somewhat related effort to deliver email (MTA-MTA connections) over Tor:
A post describing it that I just found: SMTP over Hidden Services with postfix | Into.the.Void.
There is also a program running a local IMAP/SMTP servers which you can connect to with any mail client (including Delta Chat Desktop): Cables Communication · DEₑSU
Not updated since 2014 though: GitHub - mkdesu/cables: Cables Communication, secure and anonymous communication using email-like addresses.
meta: It’s quite dangerous to believe acting anonymously, thought not even by signs of matter possible. Far better to act in ways that one would not fear bad effects or feel ashamed when all would know about it.
Edward Snowden: “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”
Goebbels “You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide”
meta: [quote=“gggvv, post:9, topic:869”]
Goebbels “You have nothing to fear, if you have nothing to hide”
[/quote]
…and/better or if ones virtue is pure and no harmful undertakings are carried on.
Fear has it’s cause. Abounding it leads to right fearlessness (fearing just unwholesome acting). At beginning it of course requires faith to later, soon be able to confirm. Nothing worthy to lose in giving it a try. At least, even hiding makes other reasonable concern and fear, or? Why would one hidde other than fears caused be wrong doing? Further meta but maybe really helpfull for some: Freedom from fear.
how to use email over onions on iOS: