The app is currently available for Android and is in its beta stage today.
Under the hood, Briar uses a peer-to-peer web connection to relay information rather than central servers.
In addition, all messages use forward secrecy and do not contain any meta data.
These very things also make it censorship resistant.
Briar is built as modular as possible.
There are two libraries that can be used to build apps on top of them.
We definitely want to do a desktop app.
An iOS app is trickier because iOS is more closed than Android, Grote added.
Though Briar is a direct competitor to Tor, the developers are said to be on cordial terms.
Our developers know many of the Tor developers and they know us, Grote said.
We discuss issues like battery usage of Tor on mobile devices and work together to improve that.
Source:BleepingComputer
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