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Apa itu Delta Chat?
Grup
Encryption
Multi-client
Miscellaneous

Apa itu Delta Chat?

Delta Chat adalah aplikasi obrolan baru yang mengirim pesan melalui email, diekripsi jika memungkinkan, dengan Autocrypt Anda tidak harus mendaftar di mana saja, cukup gunakan akun email Anda yang ada dengan Delta Chat.

Bagaimana Saya bisa menemukan orang untuk diajak ngobrol?

Dengan Delta Chat, anda dapat mengetik ke semua alamat email yang ada - meskipun si penerima tidak menggunakan aplikasi Delta Chat. Tidak perlu bagi penerima untuk menginstal aplikasi yang sama seperti milik Anda, seperti halnya dengan messenger-messanger lain.

Apa kelebihan Delta Chat dibandingkan dengan messenger lain?

Independen dari perusahaan atau layanan apa pun. _Anda memiliki data Anda.
Data Anda tidak disimpan di server pusat kecuali semua pengguna menggunakan server email yang sama
Anda tidak mendistribusikan buku alamat Anda kepada siapa pun.
Cepat dengan menggunakan Push-IMAP.
Pengguna terluas - penerima tidak menggunakan Delta Chat dapat dihubungi juga.
Kompatibel - tidak hanya untuk dirinya sendiri.
Antarmuka pengguna Elegan__ dan _simpel.
Sistem Terdistribusi.
Tidak Spam - hanya pesan dari pengguna yang dikenal yang ditampilkan secara default.
Diandalkan - aman untuk penggunaan profesional.
Terpercaya - bahkan dapat digunakan untuk pesan bisnis.
Perangkat lunak gratis berbasis Copyleft dan Standards.

Pesan mana yang muncul di Delta Chat?

Delta Chat otomatis menampilkan:

Pesan-pesan dari kontak di buku alamat Anda
Pesan dari kontak dihubungi oleh Anda
Balasan untuk pesan yang dikirim oleh Anda

Pesan lain tidak muncul secara otomatis, dan dapat ditemukan di Permintaan kontak. Jika diinginkan obrolan bisa dimulai dari sana.

Bagaimana dengan spam?

Pesan dalam folder spam umum diabaikan dan alamat yang ada tidak dianggap sebagai kontak yang dikenal.
Karena pesan dari kontak yang tidak dikenal tidak muncul secara otomatis, biasanya, tidak ada spam.
Namun, jika diperlukan, Anda dapat memblokir kontak apa pun.

Apakah Delta Chat mendukung gambar, vidio dan lampiran lainnya?

Ya, Di samping teks biasa, semua lampiran email ditampilkan sebagai pesan terpisah. Pesan keluar mendapatkan lampiran sesuai kebutuhan secara otomatis.

Siapa yang dapat melihat Foto Profil saya?

Anda dapat menambahkan gambar profil di pengaturan Anda. Jika Anda menulis ke kontak Anda atau menambahkannya melalui kode QR, mereka secara otomatis melihatnya sebagai gambar profil Anda.
Kontak yang tidak menggunakan Delta Chat melihatnya sebagai lampiran E-Mail.
Untuk alasan kerahasiaan, tidak ada satupun yang dapat melihat Foto Profil anda hingga anda menulis sebuah pesan kepada mereka.
Gambar profil Anda tidak dikirim dengan setiap pesan, tetapi cukup secara teratur kontak Anda akan menerima kembali gambar profil Anda, bahkan jika mereka menambahkan yang perangkat baru

Apakah Delta Chat mendukung email HTML?

Ya. Bila pesan email masuk tidak memiliki bagian teks biasa, email-email HTML akan dikonversi ke teks biasa dalam aplikasi. Email-email yang dikirim selalu menggunakan teks biasa.

Mengapa saya harus memasukkan kata sandi E-Mail saya ke Delta Chat? Apakah ini aman?

Seperti program E-Mail lainnya seperti Thunderbird, K9-Mail, atau Outlook, program membutuhkan kata sandi sehingga Anda dapat menggunakannya untuk mengirim email. Tentu saja, kata sandi hanya disimpan di perangkat Anda. Kata sandi hanya dikirimkan ke penyedia E-Mail Anda (saat Anda login), yang tetap memiliki akses ke email Anda.

Jika Anda menggunakan penyedia E-Mail dengan dukungan OAuth2 seperti gmail.com atau yandex.ru, tidak perlu menyimpan kata sandi Anda di perangkat. Dalam hal ini, hanya token akses digunakan.

Karena Delta Chat adalah Open Source, Anda dapat memeriksa file Source Code jika Anda ingin memverifikasi bahwa kredensial Anda ditangani dengan aman. Kami bahagia tentang umpan balik yang membuat aplikasi lebih aman untuk semua pengguna kami.

Izin apa yang dibutuhkan Delta Chat?

Tergantung operasi sistem yang digunakan, Anda mungkin diminta untuk memberikan izin ke aplikasi. Inilah yang dilakukan Delta Chat dengan izin ini:

Kamera (dapat dianulir)
ambil gambar dan video: untuk mengirim Foto
Kontak (dapat dianulir)
baca kontak Anda: untuk menemukan kontak untuk diajak ngobrol
Lokasi (dapat dianulir)
Akses perkiraan lokasi (sumber lokasi jaringan): untuk fitur streaming lokasi
Akses lokasi yang tepat (GPS dan sumber lokasi jaringan): untuk fitur streaming lokasi
Mikrofon (dapat dianulir)
rekam audio: untuk pesan audio
Penyimpanan (dapat dianulir)
memodifikasi atau menghapus isi kartu SD Anda: untuk mengunduh lampiran pesan
baca isi kartu SD Anda: untuk berbagi file dengan kontak Anda
Kemampuan aplikasi lainnya
ubah pengaturan audio Anda: sehingga Anda dapat memilih nada dering dan volume untuk pemberitahuan dan pesan audio
berjalan saat startup: jadi Anda tidak harus memulai Delta Chat secara manual
Kontrol getaran: untuk notifikasi
lihat koneksi jaringan: untuk terhubung ke penyedia E-Mail Anda
mencegah ponsel dari tidur: sehingga Anda dapat lebih mudah menyalin kode keamanan selama Pesan Pengaturan Autocrypt
memiliki akses jaringan penuh: untuk terhubung ke penyedia E-Mail Anda
lihat koneksi Wi-Fi: untuk terhubung ke penyedia E-Mail Anda
minta untuk mengabaikan optimisasi baterai: untuk pengguna yang ingin menerima pesan setiap saat

Grup

Pembuatan grup

Select New chat and then New group from the menu in the upper right corner or hit the corresponding button on Android/iOS.
On the following screen, select the group members and define a group name. You can also select a group avatar.
As soon as you write the first message in the group, all members are informed about the new group and can answer in the group (as long as you do not write a message in the group the group is invisible to the members).

Tambahkan anggota ke grup

Every group member has the same rights as any other. For this reason every one can delete every member or add new ones.
To add or delete members, click on the group name in the chat.

What is a verified group? Why is it experimental?

A verified group is a chat that guarantees safety against an active attacker. All Messages in a verified chat view are e2e-encrypted, and members can join by scanning a “QR invite code”. All members are thus connected with each other through a chain of invites, which guarantee cryptographic consistency against active network or provider attacks. See countermitm.readthedocs.io for the R&D behind this feature.
As of Dec 2019, a “verified group” remains an experimental feature. It is continuously improved and many bugs have been fixed since the original introduction in 2018. However, there remain cases, especially with large groups where inconsistencies can occur, or messages become unreadable. Early 2020 a security review is upcoming, and several new developments around qr-join protocols are taking place so chances are we remove the “experimental” label not too far in the future.

I have deleted myself by accident.

As you’re no longer a group member, you cannot add yourself again. However, no problem, just ask any other group member in a normal chat to re-add you.

I do not want to receive the messages of a group any longer.

Either delete yourself from the member list or delete the whole chat. If you want to join the group again later on, ask another group member to add you again.
As an alternative, you can also “Mute” a group - doing so means you get all messages and can still write, but are no longer notified of any new messages.

What do double ticks mean in group messages? Has everyone read my message now?

A message shows double ticks after more than half of the recipients have seen the message on their display.
Note that some recipients might have disabled read-receipts for privacy-reasons.
If more than 50% in a group disabled read receipts, the double ticks will never show up. For more detailed information, see this blogpost.

Encryption

Does Delta Chat support end-to-end-encryption?

Yes. Delta Chat implements the Autocrypt Level 1 standard and can thus E2E-encrypt messages with other Autocrypt-capable apps.
Delta Chat also supports a strong form of end-to-end encryption that is even safe against active attacks, see “verified groups” further below.

What do I have to do to activate the end-to-end-encryption?

Tidak ada.
Delta Chat apps (and other Autocrypt-compatible e-mail apps) share the keys required for end-to-end-encryption automatically as the first messages are sent. After this, all subsequent messages are encrypted end-to-end automatically. If one of the chat partners uses a non-Autocrypt e-mail app, subsequent messages are not encrypted until an Autocrypt-compliant app is available again.
If you want to rather avoid end-to-end-encrypted e-mails by default, use the corresponding Autocrypt setting in “Settings” or “Advanced settings”.

If end-to-end-encryption is not available, is the connection not encrypted at all?

With most mail servers, Delta Chat establishes transport encryption (TLS). This only secures the connection between your device and your e-mail server. Whereas e2e-encryption provides safety between your device and a friend’s device.

How can I verify cryptographic status with a sender?

If you are within immediate distance of the chat partner:

Select QR Invite code on one device and then Scan QR code on the other one and scan the code. If both devices are online, they will introduce a chat channel with each-other (if it doesn’t exist already) and the encryption keys will also be verified. Both will see a “sender verified” system message in their 1:1 chat.

If you are not near the chat partner, you can check the status manually in the “Encryption” dialog (user profile on Android/iOS or right-click a user’s chat-list item on desktop):

For end-to-end-encryption, Delta Chat shows two fingerprints there. If the same fingerprints appear on your chat partner’s device, the connection is safe.
For transport encryption, this state is just shown there

How can I check the encryption of messages?

A little padlock shown beside a message denotes whether the message is end-to-end-encrypted from from the given sender.
If there is no padlock, the message is usually transported unencrypted e.g. because you or the sender have turned off end-to-end-encryption, or the sender uses an app without support for end-to-end-encryption.

Which standards are used for end-to-end-encryption?

Autocrypt is used for establishing e2e-encryption with other Delta Chat and other Autocrypt-capable mail apps. Autocrypt uses a limited subset of OpenPGP functionality.
Delta Chat implements countermitm setup-contact and verified-group protocols to achieve protection against active network attacks. This goes beyond the opportunistic base protection of Autocrypt Level 1, while maintaining its ease of use.

What is the difference between verified groups and 1:1 chats with verified contacts?

1:1 chats with a verified contact and verified groups are not the same, even if there are only 2 people in the verified group. One difference is that you could easily add more people to the group, but there are other implications as well.
Verified groups are invariably secured. Any breakage (cleartext or wrongly signed messages etc.) will be flagged and such messages will not be shown in this chat. You can trust all messages in this verified-checkmark chat to have not been read/altered by middle parties.
1:1 chats are opportunistic, it is meant to allow people to communicate no matter if they change e-mail clients, devices, setups etc. That’s why there is no verification checkmark, even if you have verified the contact.

Does Delta Chat support Perfect Forward Secrecy?

No, OpenPGP doesn’t support Perfect Forward Secrecy. Perfect Forward Secrecy works session-oriented, but E-Mail is asynchronous by nature and often used from multiple devices independently. This means that if your Delta Chat private key is leaked, and someone has a record of all your in-transit messages, they will be able to read them.
Note that if anyone has seized or hacked your running phone, they will typically be able to read all messages, no matter if Perfect Forward Secrecy is in place or not. Having access to a single device from a member of a group, will typically expose a lot of the social graph. Using e-mail addresses that are not easily tracked back to persons helps group members to stay safer from the effects of device seizure.
We are sketching ways to protect communications better against the event of device seizure.

How does Delta Chat protect my Metadata?

As Delta Chat is a decentralized messenger, the metadata of Delta Chat users are not stored on a single central server. However, they are stored on the mail servers of the sender and the recipient of a message.
Each mail server currently knows about who sent and who received a message by inspecting the unencrypted To/Cc headers and thus determine which e-mail addresses are part of a group. Delta Chat itself could avoid unencrypted To/Cc headers quite and always put them only into the encrypted section. See Avoid sending To/CC headers for verified groups. For opportunistic chats the main concern is how it affects other mail apps who might participate in chats.
Many other e-mail headers, in particular the “Subject” header, are end-to-end-encryption protected, see also this upcoming IETF RFC.

Can I reuse my existing private key?

Yes. The best way is to send an Autocrypt Setup Message from the other e-mail client. Look for something like Start Autocrypt Setup Transfer in the settings of the other client and follow the instructions shown there.
Alternatively, you can import the key manually in “Settings” or “Advanced settings” and then “Import secret keys”. Caution: Make sure the key is not protected by a password, or remove the password beforehand.

If you don’t have a key or don’t even know you would need one - don’t worry: Delta Chat generates keys as needed, you don’t have to hit a button for it.

I can’t import my existing PGP key into Delta Chat.

The most likely cause is that your key is encrypted and/or uses a password. Such keys are not supported by Delta Chat. You could remove the passphrase encryption and the password and try the import again. If you want to keep your passphrase you’ll have to create an e-mail alias for use with Delta Chat such that Delta Chat’s key is tied to this e-mail alias.

Delta Chat supports common OpenPGP private key formats, however, it is unlikely that private keys from all sources will be fully supported. This is not the main goal of Delta Chat. In fact, the majority of new users will not have any key prior to using Delta Chat. We do, however, try to support private keys from as many sources as possible.

Removing the password from the private key will depend on the software you use to manage your PGP keys. With Enigmail, you can set your password to an empty value in the Key Management window. With GnuPG you can set it via the command line. For other programs, you should be able to find a solution online.

Why don’t you use pEp (pretty easy privacy)?

Delta Chat uses the Autocrypt e2e-encryption standard. For a discussion of Autocrypt and pEp, see the Autocrypt FAQ.

Multi-client

Can I use Delta Chat on multiple devices at the same time?

If you want to use the same account on different devices, you should export a backup from the old device, and import it into the new device:

On the old device, go to “Settings” or “Settings / Chats and media” and then to “Backup”. Enter your screen unlock PIN, pattern, or password. Then you can click on “Start Backup”. This saves the backup file to your device. Now you have to transfer it to the other device somehow.
On the new device, on the login screen, instead of logging into your email account, choose “Import Backup”. After import, your conversations, encryption keys, and media should be copied to the new device.
You are now synchronized, and can use both devices for sending and receiving E2E-encrypted messages with your communication partners.

Are there any plans for introducing a Delta Chat Web Client?

There are no immediate plans but some preliminary thoughts.
There are 2-3 avenues for introducing a Delta Chat Web Client, but all are significant work. For now, we focus on getting stable releases into all app stores (Google Play/iOS/Windows/macOS/Linux repositories) as native apps.
If you need a Web Client, because you are not allowed to install software on the computer you work with, you can use the portable Windows Desktop Client, or the AppImage for Linux. You can find them on get.delta.chat.

Why can I choose not to watch the Inbox?

This is an experimental setting for some people who are experimenting with server-side rules. Not all providers support this, but with some you can move all mails with a “Chat-Version” header to the DeltaChat folder. Normally, this would be done by the Delta Chat app.

Watching the Inbox makes sense to turn off, if you have both:

enabled a server-side rule to move all messages with Chat-Version header to the DeltaChat folder, and
have set the “Show classic emails” setting to “no, chats only”.

In this case, Delta Chat doesn’t need to watch the Inbox.

What is the “Send Copy to Self” setting good for?

Sending a copy of your messages to yourself ensures that you receive your own messages on all devices. If you have multiple devices and don’t turn it on, you see only the messages from other people, and the messages you send from the current device.

The copy is sent to the Inbox, and then moved to the DeltaChat folder; it’s not put into the “Sent” folder. Delta Chat never uploads anything to the Sent folder because this would mean uploading a message twice (once through SMTP, and once through IMAP to Sent folder).

The default setting for copy-to-self is “no”.

Why can I choose to watch the “Sent” folder?

The only reason one wants to watch the Sent folder is if you are using another mail program (like Thunderbird) next to your Delta Chat app, and want your MUA to participate in chat conversations.

However, we recommend using the Delta Chat Desktop Client; you can download it on get.delta.chat. The option to watch the “Sent” folder might go away in the future. It was introduced at a time where there was no Delta Chat Desktop client available on all platforms.

Why can I choose not to watch the DeltaChat folder?

Some people use Delta Chat as a regular email client, and want to use the Inbox folder for their mail, instead of the DeltaChat folder. If you disable “Watch DeltaChat folder”, you should also disable “move chat messages to DeltaChat”. Otherwise, deleting messages or multi-device setups might not work properly.

Miscellaneous

Does Delta Chat work with my e-mail-provider?

With a rather good chance: Yes :)
However, some providers need special options to work properly, see Provider Overview

If Delta Chat uses E-Mail, is it really an Instant Messenger?

Sending and receiving messages takes a few seconds, typically. Sometimes there are cases where it takes longer but that is arguably true as well for any other messenger.
Instant chatting works fast if both parties are actively using the app. It’s sometimes slower if the app is running in the background.
Receiving messages then can take minutes because both Android and iOS often stop Delta Chat from running in the background, and only wake it up occasionally. This artificial delay is usually worse on iOS than on Android.
However, Android and iOS kill apps running in the background is a problem for many legitimate apps. For more information, see dontkillmyapp.com.

Is Delta Chat compatible with Protonmail / Tutanota / Criptext?

Yes and No.
No, you can not use your Protonmail, Tutanota, or Criptext account with Delta Chat; they do not offer receiving mails via IMAP.
In any case you can use Delta Chat to send Messages to people who use Protonmail, Tutanota, or Criptext. Those messages will not be End-to-End encrypted, though. The End-to-End encryption those providers offer is only working inside their platforms, and not compatible with anyone outside.
Delta Chat can e2e-encrypt through any e-mail provider with any Autocrypt-enabled e-mail app.

I’m interested in the technical details. Can you tell me more?

See Standards used in Delta Chat.

How are Delta Chat developments funded?

First of all, Delta Chat does not receive any Venture Capital and is not indebted, and under no pressure to produce huge profits, or to sell users and their friends and family to advertisers (or worse).

Delta Chat developments have so far been funded from four major sources:

The NEXTLEAP EU project funded the research and implementation of verified groups and setup contact protocols in 2017 and 2018.
The Open Technology Fund has given two grants. The first 2018/2019 grant (~$200K) majorly improved the Android app and allowed us to release a Desktop app beta version, and also moored our feature developments in UX research in human rights contexts, see our concluding Needfinding and UX report. The second 2019/2020 grant (~$300K) is still ongoing and helps us to release Delta/iOS versions, to convert our core library to Rust, and to provide new features for all platforms. See the ongoing blog posts for more info.
The NLnet foundation granted EUR 46K for completing Rust/Python bindings and instigating a Chat-bot ecosystem.
Last but by far not least, several pro-bono experts and enthusiasts contributed and contribute to Delta Chat developments without receiving money, or only small amounts. Without them, Delta Chat would not be where it is today, not even close.

The monetary funding mentioned above was organized by merlinux GmbH in Freiburg (Germany), and then distributed to almost a dozen contributors.

Funding for 2020/2021 is yet to be determined. We are pursuing several opportunities with different organisations and partners. We also are considering to ask for donations. In fact, we experimentally started a little Delta Chat / Liberapay donation account but have not published this yet. There were also around 3-4K so far donated to Bjoern’s (the original author of Delta Chat) paypal and bitcoin donation channels.