@ -37,6 +37,22 @@ No. We do not use code directly from Signal, but the ideas from the protocol and
Signal requires phone numbers and is a centralized service. HushChat is completely anonymous and decentralized and requires absolutely no metadata be given to any centralized third parties.
## How does it compare to Conceal (CCX) and LOKI chat systems (Session) ?
Glad you asked!
* Monero family coins have no encrypted data storage at the protocol level!
* Zcash Protocol coins have encrypted data at the protocol level via the memo field
* This means that Monero family coins are inherently inferior to build an encrypted chat system upon
* The encryption must be added at a higher level and really stands out, you know which transactions are chats
and which are not
* The design of HushChat is such that every normal HUSH transaction looks like a chat, and every chat
looks like the most common kind of Hush transaction. There is no way to tell if chat is being used in any
z2z transaction or not. This is caused "plausible deniability" and also there is no way to know *how many*
people are being communicated with, another kind of plausible deniability.
* CCX and LOKI have none of the above properties, their systems are centralized and have very little privacy, if any.
* Additionally, Conceal and LOKI have no censorship-prevention and are not protected by Bitcoin Hashrate Security via Delayed-Proof-of-Work
* CCX and LOKI are off-chain only, while HushChat can be either on-chain or off-chain.
## What kind of interfaces will there be to HushChat?
GitHub