[Replicant] Using signal/textsecure

Torsten Grote Torsten.Grote at fsfe.org
Mon Nov 9 23:52:14 UTC 2015


On Monday 09 November 2015 20:39:10 Simon Josefsson wrote:
> Having a centralized server infrastructure can be a
> security/privacy/foss concern as well.  Are there any free software
> Signal servers out there?

The Signal server is Free Software and you can run your own. I did this myself 
already to assist with debugging the websocket version of Signal.

There is also some sort of federation built in, but the current master server 
needs to be enabled to federate with your custom server.

> If one person has the ability to ban arbitrary people from the network, that
> raise a red flag to me.

Moxie does have this power.

Kind Regards,
Torsten
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