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by doctorKrieger 4396 days ago
@1 Is the connection in Bittorrent Chat working the same way as in tor? And are you randomizing payload size + providing some kind of delivery delay? If not you are still susceptible to attacks. As for the configuration part, it's relatively easy to install appropriate plugin in ekg or pidgin.
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Bittorrent Chat works differently from Tor. The protocol is not yet finalized but we'll make sure to have external security experts review it to ensure that we deliver on our promise.

Getting to how-easy or how-difficult the installation is, is an endless discussion and is very subjective. One thing that I should add though is that something that might be super easy for you might not be as easy for 99% of Internet users (which is bad for a messaging app specially since you are likely to have friends whom you want to talk to in the 99% category). Installing/configuring a GPG plugin is likely to be one of those.

You haven't answered my question, i was asking whether you've removed all the possible information leak cases or not.

Yes the message timing , payload size and ip you're connecting to is leaking some information aswell and can be monitored e.g on a ISP level.