About Tox
Tox is a decentralized instant messaging platform that prioritizes privacy and freedom. Unlike traditional services, Tox operates without central servers, ensuring no third party can monitor or censor your communications. It offers encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, screen sharing, and file transfers, all completely free and ad-free. Built by its users for its users, Tox provides a truly open and secure alternative to mainstream messaging apps.
FAQ
Tox protects your privacy by removing the need for central authorities, enforcing end-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy, and ensuring your identity cannot be forged without your private key, which never leaves your computer.
Find your Tox ID in your client's profile or settings panel, share it with your friend, and have them add it to their contacts list.
They will see you go offline, and they won't be able to communicate with you until you add them back.
Tox does not hide your IP address, as it is a peer-to-peer network. However, your IP is only revealed to someone when you add them to your contacts list.
No, Tox does not rely on central servers. However, clients may use public bootstrap nodes to connect to the DHT.
Tox uses curve25519 for key exchanges, xsalsa20 for symmetric encryption, and poly1305 for MACs, all from the NaCl crypto library via libsodium.
Toxcore uses Opus for audio and VP8 for video.
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