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Zerion: a privacy-focused messaging app based on Briar's protocol (zerion.chat)

submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by pedroapero@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 2 points 18 hours ago (1 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?

[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

You can connect to SimpleX over tor, and you can run SimpleX servers over a tor hidden services.