It is written in Python and used the cross-platform widget toolkit wxPython which made it possible to support a wide range of platforms and operating systems. The first public version of TorChat was released in November 2007 by Bernd Kreuss (prof7bit). Since onion services can receive incoming connections even if they are behind a router doing network address translation (NAT), TorChat does not need any port forwarding to work. TorChat clients communicate with each other by using Tor to contact the other's onion service (derived from their ID) and exchanging status information, chat messages and other data over this connection. This ID will be randomly created by Tor when the client is started the first time, it is basically the. In TorChat every user has a unique alphanumeric ID consisting of 16 characters. TorChat is free software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all traffic between the clients is encrypted and that it is very difficult to tell who is communicating with whom and where a given client is physically located. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network.
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