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Delta Chat introduces realtime Peer-to-Peer networking

November 20, 2024 - Are you interested in enshittification-resistant application development? After almost two years of collaboration with the wonderful Iroh team, and years of discussions with numerous experts in the decentralization space, we are happy to announce that Delta Chat 1.48 apps on all platforms contain state-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer networking support, including hole punching and forward-secret end-to-end encryption. Concretely, Delta Chat now establishes private Peer-to-Peer gossipping networks between users who start a webxdc app that uses the new joinRealtimeChannel() API. Read on...

Instant Onboarding and Instant Message Delivery

May 31, 2024 - A major milestone in our 6+ years long project history: With the rolling 1.46 app releases you can start chatting without a pre-existing e-mail address. Just provide a name and then tap “Agree and continue” to create a chat profile using the default chatmail server. Or visit other chatmail servers and tap the invite on their home page. Read on...

Hardening Guaranteed End-to-End encryption based on a security analysis from ETH researchers

March 25, 2024 - We released guaranteed end-to-end encryption in November 2023 and were in for a pleasant surprise three months later. The Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich handed us a cryptographic security analysis of our SecureJoin protocol implementation which is the basis of Delta Chat’s guaranteed end-to-end encryption mechanisms. We subsequently fixed 20 identified issues that became part of the v1.44 release but only disclose it now because we first wanted Delta Chat apps with all fixes to be available on all stores. Read on...

Four major usability improvements in Delta Chat 1.44

March 12, 2024 - Delivery time! The rolling Delta Chat 1.44 releases bring four often requested usability improvements. Visit get.delta.chat to onboard and invite anyone, instantly and securely, and without them needing an e-mail address or a phone number first. Some claim no other messenger suite today is as easy to onboard and use. True or not? In any case, we are already busy with preparing next usability improvements to avoid any doubts :) Read on...

Webxdc (Psst!) reclaiming Peer-to-Peer Web technology

February 15, 2024 - While blockchain projects hailed “decentralization” and “Web3” as a paradigm change, expending billions of dollars and development hours in the last decade, they failed to create even a baseline specification for packaging and running P2P web apps like the one we started in 2022 with webxdc. Read on...

Chatmail - replicable, fast and secure chatting infrastructure for all

December 13, 2023 - Today, we are unveiling chatmail services, making onboarding with Delta Chat a breeze, with peace of mind: Read on...

Guaranteed End-to-End encryption and many other good news

November 23, 2023 - Our rolling 1.42 Delta Chat app releases introduce guaranteed end-to-end encryption, a major security milestone that took many hundreds of hours of challenging work from core Delta Chat teams, experts and collaborators. Friends from activist circles, users and operators of security-related helplines, as well as TeamUSEC all helped us to streamline usability and implementation issues for guaranteed end-to-end encryption. Read on...

Everything-apps without platforms - say 'hi' to xstore 😊

August 11, 2023 - Others are hand-wavingly chattering about so called “super-app” or “everything app” architectures, but we prefer to just deliver and improve them. Today, we are happy to announce a new way to find and start webxdc “everything” apps, among them: Read on...

Introducing DeltaTouch, a new community created client for Ubuntu Touch

July 02, 2023 - Hi, this is Lothar aka lk108. I’m today’s guest on the blog and it’s my pleasure to introduce DeltaTouch, a third-party client based on deltachat-core-rust for the mobile phone OS Ubuntu Touch (UT). The app has just been released on the OpenStore for both the xenial and the focal channel of UT. Here’s what it looks like: Read on...

WebXDC apps can now exchange data and run on other messengers!

June 28, 2023 - Earlier this year we worked hard to enforce WebXDC app privacy but what good is having totally private apps if there is no convenient way to exchange data with the rest of the world? With the Delta Chat 1.38 releases we introduced two new WebXDC APIs to safely and conveniently exchange data with other tools and apps. Read on...

Bringing E2E privacy to the Web: 4th security audit 😅

May 22, 2023 - Delta Chat’s “web apps shared in a chat” come with a unique privacy promise but in January it was shown to be compromised. We got into a surprising struggle with Web browser sandboxing issues that took us several months to come out ahead of. Read on...

Good news from security audits, past and present

March 27, 2023 - In case you wonder how safe Delta Chat’s core messaging implementation and server guides are, you may be interested in the summary statement from the recent independent security audit by Cure53: Read on...