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redphone

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Observed mentions: 2012-07-17 17:41:10 UTC to 2014-12-19 05:59:26 UTC.

012342012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 commentsJul 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2014

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 20122012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC413
Aug 20122012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20122012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20122012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20122012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20122012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Feb 20132013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20132013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Apr 20132013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20132013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20132013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20132013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20132013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20132013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20132013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20132013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20132013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20142014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20142014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20142014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20142014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 20142014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20142014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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dobbsbob·Aug 23, 2013
according to this it does https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/143 However, like the majority of network-enabled Android applications, RedPhone relies on the existence of APIs provided by the Play Services Framework. If you're avoiding Google Play because you don't want your device to "phone home," you should be aware that merely having Play installed (even without an account registered) is enough for your device to phone home. If you uninstall Play, however, the Play Services Framework will be unavailable, and RedPhone (along with many other applications) will not function.
In TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages
enimodas·Jun 22, 2013
silent circle is closed source and everything goes through their server. Sure they can claim not to store much logs, but when some government entity puts some secret orders on them, who knows what will happen. Remember that having the metadata, who calls who, is already a big win for surveillance entities. RedPhone is owned by twitter, same story, but the client is open source, and maybe they have plans to release the server too, but you would have to compile your clients too since apparently the servers are hardcoded into the client. Both of these are thus not federated. Ostel is open source client and server side, you can easily set up your own server, and if I understand it correctly it's also federated. Some reading: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/issues/63 https://guardianproject.info/2012/07/05/a-network-analysis-o...
In Ostel: Encrypted Phone Calls
yareally·Mar 6, 2013
> I'm thinking some ways of encrypted mobile-to-mobile communication, file storage, maybe even encrypted video. There's a few good open source implementations out there already for phone calls and SMS. The two below were done by Moxie Marlinspike. They're built for Android, but I'm sure they can be ported elsewhere with the source being available. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure
In Stop thinking up startup ideas [presentation]
epoxyhockey·Jul 18, 2012
From browsing the source and referencing the architecture section of the wiki ( https://github.com/WhisperSystems/RedPhone/wiki/Architecture... ), there is a RedPhone master server (master.whispersystems.org:31337) and a relay server (relay.whispersystems.org:31337) that the phone will use during the course of all phone calls. Apparently, most cell phone network providers disallow direct peer-to-peer communication, thus the relay server is necessary to complete this kind of encrypted call. All of your encrypted voice data will pass through the relay server, so there isn't going to be much privacy in terms of who you are talking to at what times, but the contents of your voice call won't be revealed.
In RedPhone is now Open Source

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