I heard about this in F-Droid's latest blog post.
It is based on the Bramble protocol and is compatible with Briar.
It removed mesh-networking features of Briar and added a couple new ones:

  • voice messaging
  • ML-KEM (post-quantum cryptography)
  • disappearing messages

More technical details are shared on their blog.

Sources are on Github https://github.com/zerionproject/Zerion

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[–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This looks like a really cool project with a lot of well selected components for good security/privacy, but it also appears to be significantly vibe-coded as there are only 2 contributors and one is Claude. I'd really appreciate some sort of validation audit from a trusted 3rd party before using it seriously.

Hopefully it can collaborate with existing privacy focused orgs as this could be very useful for journalists and other folks needing robust communications and secure vaults for sensitive data.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    How would this compare to SimpleX chat? On SimpleX, you could host your own sever too, and run over tor. Maybe this does everything like that for you since using tor already?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    This one has native onion rotation and no need to host a server (it uses a simpler message queuing, might be less efficient when both parties are often offline). Also SimpleX is not designed to run over TOR if I remember correctly (more complexity).

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