🌀 Fam Chat

Anonymous private secure opensource chat using end-to-end encrypted transport.

Previously I2P Chat AKA I2P Qt Messenger.

Current project status: Wreckage

For plans description, see: hypnosis-i2p#85

Features

• The communication goes «directly over i2p» from client to client, no server is required. Note: The connections to the so-called «seedless» servers were removed from this project; see: hypnosis-i2p#40 . —hypn.

How to run it

To make I2P Chat work over your I2P router, you need to enable SAM in your router:

• for java i2p: at configclients page, or
• for i2pd: at [sam] section of i2pd.conf.

Security measures

Since version 0.3.1

When building this, make sure you do not define DEBUGLOGGING. If you do define it, the app will log debug info (which includes all chat messages) to configdir/DebugLog.txt if set DebugLogging to true in General group in the app's configuration. See main.cpp and form_settingsgui.cpp for more details on DEBUGLOGGING. All versions < 0.3.1 are affected by this and are less secure.

Project status, news and history

Older Project status

Now the development was resumed by Hypnosis and R4SAS, with a lot more folks as testers & bugs+issues reporters.

Current news

11 Feb, 2017: I started a great overhaul of the code, I consider the old code junior very bad quality. It's impossible to modify such a chaos. A german coder of the original I2PQtMessenger seems to have known nothing about OOP.

5 Jan, 2017: Original repo at http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git was fully merged here.

History

Original developer of this messenger went away.

License

The license of this software is GPLv2.

Build instructions

• Install prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install qt5-qmake qt5-default build-essential libqt5multimedia5 qtmultimedia5-dev

• Run qmake for either release:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += release"

or for debug:

qmake I2P-Messenger.pro "CONFIG += debug"

• And after that,

make -j NUMBER_OF_PROCESSOR_CORES

or simply

make

Old files and sites

• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/macos → Mac OS X versions, not tested;
• http://echelon.i2p/qti2pmessenger/ → old eche|on's site for I2P Chat (versions up to 0.2.24);
• https://launchpad.net/~i2p.packages/+archive/ubuntu/i2p/+sourcepub/4824794/+listing-archive-extra → Kill Your TV's PPA (v.0.2.25).
• http://git.repo.i2p/w/I2P-Messenger-QT.git/shortlog → original repo (fully merged into this /i2pchat)

List of relevant repositories

I created two repos of github:

• one for old files of I2P Messenger: https://github.com/hypnosis-i2p/I2PQtMessengerLegacy ;
• another for development: https://github.com/hypnosis-i2p/famchat .