- provide end-to-end-encryption (OTR, some kind of ratcheting)
**SHOULD**
- provide end-to-end-encryption
- provide a desktop client
- be mass-adopted already
- work over Tor / SOCKS
- allow for instant messaging
- allow for video calls
- allow for audio calls
## Possible candidates:
- Telegram: works over Tor, has a Debian package
- Signal: centralized server, mass adopted, Chromium extension, will
they port to FF? Tor?
- Matrix: decentralized, TLS by default, Tor? Do we want this in Tails
server?
- Wire: desktop client but no proxy/Tor support?
- Ring.cx: end-to-end, works over Tor?, not mass adopted
- Briar: decentralized, works over Tor, but no Linux client yet
### Telegram
- works over Tor (You can configure Tor as a SOCKS5 proxy in the configuration. The traffic seems to go through HTTP.)
- is in Debian https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/telegram-desktop
- When first starting the app, you have to enter your phone number and validate it through an SMS. Then you get all your messages and conversations back, even your stickers!
- So it's not anonymous in the sense that it's linked with your phone number but it's super easy :)
- instant messaging
### Signal
- centralized server
- mass adopted
- currently Chromium extension, will they port to FF?
