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1. Cwtch (cwtch@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:20:10 JST Cwtch

   Cwtch Beta 1.12 has been released!

   🪧 - Profile Attributes and Availability Status options
   🌐 - 4 new language options: Japanese, Slovak, Swahili and Swedish!
   🧅 - Support for Tails and other Tor-focused Operating Systems

   Along with a host of performance improvements and bug fixes.

   More details and download links on our devlog: https://docs.cwtch.im/blog/cwtch-nightly-1-12

   • Cwtch (cwtch@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:24:52 JST Cwtch

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     A special thanks to the amazing patrons, supporters, volunteer translators and testers who made this release possible.

     To support future Cwtch development please consider donating to Open Privacy https://openprivacy.ca/donate or become a Patron https://patreon.com/openprivacy

   • Cwtch (cwtch@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:30:55 JST Cwtch

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     • serrq

     @serrq

     Can you clarify what you mean?

     For p2p nothing is stored externally at all (except the ephemeral cryptographic material needed to setup a Tor onion circuit).

     For group chat Cwtch servers are self hostable, but are also designed to be untrusted and metadata resistant to allow groups to use arbitrary public servers for communication.

     All this has been designed within a tight decentralized risk model (https://docs.cwtch.im/security/risk)

   • serrq (serrq@masto.nu)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:30:57 JST serrq

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     @cwtch Is there any possibility to review the network model in the future? I would like something very similar to Session or Nostr, decentralized and self-hostable. But still free of local backups.

   • Cwtch (cwtch@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:41:58 JST Cwtch

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     • serrq

     @serrq ahhh I see.

     We do have some plans towards that - basically extended how groups work to also cover offline p2p communication.

     We've also done some research in the past towards different networking options which would provide some external storage (e.g. https://git.openprivacy.ca/openprivacy/niwl) - but we've yet to find something that covers our risk model to the same standard that our current design does.

   • serrq (serrq@masto.nu)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jun-2023 03:42:00 JST serrq

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     @cwtch Actually I intend to store externally, in an encrypted and redundant way, as happens in Nostr relays where everyone can bounce everyone’s data but where encryption protects communications and privacy.

     Why do I prefer it?

     For a practical reason: I don’t want to bring local backups with me.