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title: "Delta Chat" title: "Delta Chat"
date: 2023-01-11T17:15:31+03:00 date: 2023-01-11T17:15:31+03:00
description: > description: >
Delta Chat is an encrypted messaging app that uses email as transport. E-mail-based messenger with end-to-end encryption
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{{% pageinfo %}} Messengers like Telegram, Signal and Whatsapp cannot be private because of peculiarity their architecture - centralization. And peer-to-peer (p2p) services like tox consume too many resources and are inconvenient to use on a mobile device. The best solution is to use **your own** mail server for [Delta Chat](https://delta.chat). The application is available for all popular desktop and mobile systems.
This article is a stub. More information will be added soon.
{{% /pageinfo %}}
Messengers like Telegram, Signal, Whatsapp can't be private due to the peculiarities of architecture - centralization. And peer-to-peer (p2p) services like tox consume too many resources and are inconvenient to use on a mobile device. The best solution is to use **our own** server. If your conversation partner doesn't use Delta Chat, it will be just an ordinary email correspondence for him.
- **Delta.Chat** - uses your personal email server
- Matrix - promising development, will be added to SelfPrivacy after stabilization.
- XMPP/IRC - great candidates, will probably be added to SelfPrivacy later.
- Rocket.Chat, Zulip, Mattermost - no convenient way to communicate between servers.
## Typical data leaks when using alien servers ## Typical data leaks when using alien servers
1. IP once per minute. Helps determine your location: at home, away from home, at work. 1. IP once per minute. Helps determine your location: at home, away from home, at work.
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- Slightly slower than usual messengers - Slightly slower than usual messengers
- First message is not encrypted because public encryption keys are sent with it. - First message is not encrypted because public encryption keys are sent with it.
- There are problems with sending files > 5-7MB. - There are problems with sending files > 5-7MB.
- There are no convenient channels. We recommend using [decentralized social network]({{< ref "pleroma.md" >}}) - There are no convenient channels (chats for mass discussions and sending out information). We recommend using [a decentralized social network]({{< ref "pleroma.md">}}).