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krabador

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Registered: 2014-06-27

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Seren -- New CLI voice chat application (AUR)

Hi there!

I'm posting this message hoping to reach for all the users that prefer to work
from the terminal and appreciate simple, light and open programs.

I want to recommend an application that I've been using for some months now
and have some feedback from the community if possible. The application is called
Seren, and it is basically a small VoIP program that allows you to setup a voice
conference (with up to 10 people) from the terminal using a basic ncurses interface.

The project is quite new but I have to say that the audio quality is excellent
thanks to the Opus codec, there is basic support for sending text messages and
the whole traffic in encrypted to protect your privacy.

You can find more information about Seren, as well as the source code, in its
official webpage:

http://holdenc.altervista.org/seren/

Just yesterday the latest version was released

I've also created an AUR for Seren, here it is:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/seren/

Let me know what you think if you decide to give it a go!

For everything, be free to ask directly to #seren on irc.freenode.net, the seren community will be happy to answer!

Last edited by krabador (2014-08-03 00:56:16)

Stebalien

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Re: Seren -- New CLI voice chat application (AUR)

Cool! However, the key exchange system looks a little unwieldy; personally, I would give everyone a permanent "identity" key (preferably allow the user to a GPG key) and then use the socialist millionaire's protocol (SMP) to exchange these keys. Once the keys have been exchanged, they can be used to negotiate shared session keys. This way, once you talk to someone once, you don't need to keep manually sharing a key with them. The OTR library (libotr) does this very well but I don't know how usable it would be for this project (it's intended for layering encryption over existing IM protocols).

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krabador

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Registered: 2014-06-27

Posts: 2

Re: Seren -- New CLI voice chat application (AUR)

Cool! However, the key exchange system looks a little unwieldy; personally, I would give everyone a permanent "identity" key (preferably allow the user to a GPG key) and then use the socialist millionaire's protocol (SMP) to exchange these keys. Once the keys have been exchanged, they can be used to negotiate shared session keys. This way, once you talk to someone once, you don't need to keep manually sharing a key with them. The OTR library (libotr) does this very well but I don't know how usable it would be for this project (it's intended for layering encryption over existing IM protocols).

Really thanx for your interest, i refer to the main developer . Be free to come in #seren on irc.freenode.net , to talk directly with him and the community!