> Do you know what's going on with their suggested spelling/pronunciation? "Cwtch" was/is more common in casual conversation in South Wales (where fluent spoken Welsh is less common, but Welsh words are still used in…
It is something we get asked about fairly frequently, its not a high priority for us right now as it requires some thought as to not break or undermine any existing cryptographic/privacy properties that Cwtch does have…
Cwtch requires setting up onion services, and the app currently does that automatically via establishing a control connection with a Tor process (either launched by Cwtch, or provided by the system). Orbot can be…
There should be a link to the society website (https://openprivacy.ca/) on the Cwtch site, but I can see that there isn't - we will get that fixed. Open Privacy Research Society is a Canadian non profit society, founded…
SimpleX relies on out-of-band key material transfer between clients, in addition to the honesty of routing server to protect privacy and metadata. Cwtch uses the existing infrastructure of Tor and v3 onion services to…
It's definitely one of the bigger challenges. Currently we don't see a viable way to deploy something like Cwtch on iOS (both in due to how locked down the platform is in general, and the requirement to run a backing…
Shwmae, Sarah ydw i. I co-founded the Cwtch project, and yes I was born in Wales, lived there for 20+ years, and as a result learned Welsh in school; and while I no longer live there, I still consider myself, at least…
Hi! Sarah from the Open Privacy Research Society / Cwtch team here - happy to answer questions.
On Android we implement a background service that will wake up periodically and either use the active tor connection or start a new one if the kernel has stopped it for any reason - and also reconnects the UI. This…
Hi Sarah from Open Privacy / Cwtch team here - the main major difference is that Cwtch servers are completely untrusted under the risk model - they don't learn anything about the groups they are hosting, who is a member…
There is no official way for 3rd parties to make breach reports to OIPC-BC (nor is there a legal requirement for VCH to report to them) - it was only after Francesca raised the issue during a meeting with the…
> Do you know what's going on with their suggested spelling/pronunciation? "Cwtch" was/is more common in casual conversation in South Wales (where fluent spoken Welsh is less common, but Welsh words are still used in…
It is something we get asked about fairly frequently, its not a high priority for us right now as it requires some thought as to not break or undermine any existing cryptographic/privacy properties that Cwtch does have…
Cwtch requires setting up onion services, and the app currently does that automatically via establishing a control connection with a Tor process (either launched by Cwtch, or provided by the system). Orbot can be…
There should be a link to the society website (https://openprivacy.ca/) on the Cwtch site, but I can see that there isn't - we will get that fixed. Open Privacy Research Society is a Canadian non profit society, founded…
SimpleX relies on out-of-band key material transfer between clients, in addition to the honesty of routing server to protect privacy and metadata. Cwtch uses the existing infrastructure of Tor and v3 onion services to…
It's definitely one of the bigger challenges. Currently we don't see a viable way to deploy something like Cwtch on iOS (both in due to how locked down the platform is in general, and the requirement to run a backing…
Shwmae, Sarah ydw i. I co-founded the Cwtch project, and yes I was born in Wales, lived there for 20+ years, and as a result learned Welsh in school; and while I no longer live there, I still consider myself, at least…
Hi! Sarah from the Open Privacy Research Society / Cwtch team here - happy to answer questions.
On Android we implement a background service that will wake up periodically and either use the active tor connection or start a new one if the kernel has stopped it for any reason - and also reconnects the UI. This…
Hi Sarah from Open Privacy / Cwtch team here - the main major difference is that Cwtch servers are completely untrusted under the risk model - they don't learn anything about the groups they are hosting, who is a member…
There is no official way for 3rd parties to make breach reports to OIPC-BC (nor is there a legal requirement for VCH to report to them) - it was only after Francesca raised the issue during a meeting with the…