Tox

Tox is a peer-to-peer instant-messaging and video-calling protocol that offers end-to-end encryption. The stated goal of the project is to provide secure yet easily accessible communication for everyone. A reference implementation of the protocol is published as free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU GPL-3.0-or-later. History Inception An idea of developing a secure peer-to-peer messenger which would later turn into Tox sparked on an anonymous imageboard 4chan amidst the allegations that Skype provided NSA with an access to their infrastructure and encryption, just before they were bought by Microsoft. The initial commit to GitHub was pushed on June 23, 2013, by a user named irungentoo. Unofficial community builds became available as early as on August 23, 2013, with first official builds made available in October 2013. On July 12, 2014, Tox entered an alpha stage in development and a redesigned download page was created for the occasion.