i have found very great feature, what is simply Tox?
Tox is a free (as in liberty and price) peer to peer, distributed, multimedia messenger.
for more:-
Tox over Tor (ToT)
https://wiki.tox.im/Tox_over_Tor_(ToT)
Tox github:-
mentioned in whonix documents here:-
how to install qTox inside Whonix or debian (jessie). (instructions are not fully safe yet, please read:- Voice over IP (VoIP))
Note:- these instructions have been copied from different links:-
https://wiki.tox.chat/clients/qtox
https://wiki.tox.chat/binaries
http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
categorized/written in the way you see it below => done be me only.
1.Install qTox from the Tox.chat repository (debian-whonix users)
A- First way to install qTox:-(shortest)
echo "deb https://pkg.tox.chat/debian nightly release" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list
wget -qO - https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/pkg.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update
The Tox Repository has now been installed.
You can now install qtox, utox, toxic, ratox and tox-bootstrapd.
To see which one fits your needs please take a look at this table:-
and/or
https://wiki.tox.chat/clients/qtox#features
To install for example qTox:-
sudo apt-get install qtoxTo start qTox just type in the terminal:-
qtoxThen hit enter.
B- Second way to install qTox:-(short)
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/ nightly release" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tox.list'
wget -qO - https://pkg.tox.chat/debian/pkg.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get update -qq
echo "qTox Repository Installed."
sudo apt-get install qtox
echo "qTox Installed."
qtox
C- Third way to install qTox:- (long)
In order to clone the qTox repository you need Git.
sudo apt-get install gitadd backports to your sources.list for FFmpeg and others.
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list add this link , then exit&save
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports maingo to terminal and type
apt-get -t jessie-backports install "package"then install GCC, Qt, FFmpeg, OpanAL Soft and qrencode using
sudo apt-get install build-essential qt5-qmake qt5-default qttools5-dev-tools libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libopenal-dev libxss-dev qrencode libqrencode-dev libglib2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev ffmpeg
from this point you have two ways to try either the easy or the hard one.
The easy one:- (is not guaranteed to work)
git clone https://github.com/tux3/qTox.git
cd qTox
./simple_make.sh
The the hard one:-
install all of the toxcore dependencies
sudo apt-get install libtool autotools-dev automake checkinstall check libopus-dev libvpx-dev libsodium-dev libavdevice-devinstall filter_audio manually
git clone https://github.com/irungentoo/filter_audio
cd filter_audio
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
now toxcore compiling dependencies
git clone https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore.git
cd toxcore
autoreconf -if
./configure
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install
echo '/usr/local/lib/' | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/locallib.conf
sudo ldconfigRun in qTox directory to compile
qmake
make
Now you can start compiled qTox with
./qtoxNote:- If the compiling process stops with a missing dependency like: … libswscale/swscale.h missing try
apt-file search libswscale/swscale.hThen install the missing dependency. you can do this step for any missing dependency name.
2.how to use it in Whonix or behind any torifying connection
Since Whonix based on debian and all their traffics are torified then it wont be much different from users:tox_over_tor_tot - Tox Wiki
After installing qTox after following one of the above instructions go to terminal and type
qTox
Make new profile or load an old one, then go to:-
Settings → General → scroll down to the bottom → uncheck “Enable IPV6” and “Enable UDP” → then choose from SOCKS5 from Proxy type → then add in the Address field “127.0.0.1” with port “9050” → click on reconnect or restart qTox
new development of implementing Tox over I2P networks. check the links:-
Add I2P backend support · Issue #942 · irungentoo/toxcore · GitHub (interesting)
https://www.reddit.com/r/projecttox/comments/2z56fy/tox_over_i2p/ (old)
Does this avoid the Tor-over-Tor situation? If so, it should be added to the Tox template, where the “TODO” section notes it needs to be finished to avoid this situation.
As in do they work? I don’t know I’ll test them out if torjunkie confirms he hasn’t.
When looking at the text I see this sentence that might be misleading:
As at April 2017, the following secure (encrypted) features had been implemented: [15]
Tox is a spec with many clients with different levels of feature support. I think an explicit note about this linking to the client matrix page is best.
There is no Tor-over-Tor with Tox. Tor is never bundled with it. The instructions are for tunneling Tox connections thru TBB’s Tor instance.
Ah, okay. My mistake, the TODO was actually "how to use Tox with stream isolation without Tor over Tor.
I’ve tested these instructions and they work.
Re: the features matrix, that is correct that diff ones support diff stuff.
However, I believe the main qTox client has all that stuff I listed there (but I can’t remember now). From memory qTox was the most fully-featured client. You could double-check - I took it off their main page.
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update Tox chat no more supporting Debian, until that happen this topic might be valid again.
update , qtox is possible to be installed from debian repos starting from next debian code buster:
also @0brand & @torjunkie might update the installation of tox/qtox in our wiki.
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Please create a Whonix 15 ticket.
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Some changes Template:Tox: Difference between revisions - Whonix
- https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Chat#Tox
- https://www.whonix.org/wiki/VoIP#Tox
- https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Template:Tox
Since you originally documented it in the wiki… Do the instructions still look good? @HulaHoop
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Yes everything still looks good and having it in Whonix made things much easier.
qTox is still actiely developed and their community is vibrant and holds annual cons.
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Tox should not be included. It is not secure.
Also see the big red warning on the readme:
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Tox was a great idea. Sadly is insecure as you say. Maybe switch default Whonix IM to something like gajim OMEMO since not everybody has a phone number to use Signal?
I also feel OMEMO need more eyes.
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Its already known before even Tox integrated into whonix, You have something new to say?