Hello TinyCore Community,
I was looking for an easy-to-use encrypted messenger, and I found one:
www.wire.com.
There are warnings to use PGP or GnuPG any longer,- too old-aged and too many security holes.
Wire is a rather new German-Swiss project. It uses PerfectForwardSecrecy and therefore is independent from the spying giant octopuses like Google, FB, Amazon, Apple, M$, Intel... There are apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux (experimental) iOS, Android and also directly on Browsers like Firefox or Chromium.
I successfully tried Wire on TinyCore10.1, SliTaz, LinuxMint, Manjaro: on Firefox (actually 68.0.1) and UMatrix as the only AddOn. For the other systems that I do not have I hope that somebody of this group would take the time to try it out.
The first installation of Wire needs a desktop/laptop (NO android/iOS) and your email address for reference. The most secure mail provider for me is posteo.de, as it is actually one of the few that use PFS per default. With your help (Thanks!) I found that Xorg-7.7.tcz has to be added to send mails with appendices via posteo.de. This is also required for Wire.
Wire is easy to install:
Enter wire.com/en or wire.com/de on your browser and read about the topics
In the menu click on the blue LOGIN and enter your email address for reference.
Enter a "good" password (keepassx password manager is strongly recommended) and explore the possibilities of Wire.
If you forget your password, you are sent a RESET link to your mail address.
If you use several computers or even system sticks every LOGIN is counted as a new machine; if their number exceeds 8 you are prompted to delete one (therefore you need your password, so be your keepassx open)
To close Wire simply close your firefox (tab).
Thanks for your attention.
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