@DeiPlus Briar desktop is already available for windows. For iOS see

RT @BriarApp: Today, we officially released Briar Mailbox to improve connectivity between peers:

@STP_KITT No, see

@digest_anon1 @mbrochh @maxtannahill You don't need a mailbox. That's an optional feature. Imagine the extreme case of two users that are never online at the same time (maybe for timezone reasons).

@DeiPlus Without the mailbox, both peers need to be online at the same time (have a connection) to exchange messages. With the mailbox, only the mailbox needs to be online. Messages will be delivered when one peer comes online.

@mbrochh @maxtannahill While you are offline, contacts leave messages for you on your (or their) mailbox. You are hosting that mailbox, typically on an old Android phone:

@rid0uoff Please see the end of this page:

RT @kennyog: .@BriarApp definitely deserves more attention from the research community. They are trying to do something quite challenging w…

RT @kennyog: A nice open research challenge is to try to prove the security of Briar’s protocol stack. Tricky given the complex layering in…

RT @kennyog: Overall, we are happy to report that Briar had done a pretty good job in their crypto design. Disclosure was very smooth.

RT @kennyog: Congrats to Yuanming Song on finding these vulnerabilities during his semester project making a “deep dive” on Briar’s cryptog…

@ETH_en These are the researchers that also did MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry Breaking Threema Breaking Bridgefy The analysis of Briar didn't get its own homepage.

RT @defender_dad: Found a cool way to repurpose some old tech, side loaded an old version of @BriarApp to run on my ancient q10 to make it…

RT @ronaldolobato: Researching Android's behavior during Internet shutdowns

Briar is in Indian court today:

Researching Android's behavior during Internet shutdowns “social mesh” and “public mesh”