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**Coldwire** is designed to survive *the worst attacks* and when operated correctly it offers significantly better security than any messenger currently available.
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## 🔒 Security Model & Features
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- **Security**: Essentially unbreakable composite encryption scheme.
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- **Perfect-Forward-Secrecy**: Keys are rotated after use.
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- **Plausible Deniability**: messages are not cryptographically tied to you
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- **Mandatory SMP**: We *enforce* [Socialist millionaire problem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaire_problem) before any chat to prevent **MiTM attacks**.
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- **Minimal Attack Surface**:
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- Tkinter UI only, no embedded browsers nor HTML
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- Minimal Python dependecies
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- All untrusted inputs truncated to safe lengths to prevent buffer‑overflow in liboqs or Tk
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- **Traffic obfuscation**: Network adversaries (ISP, etc) cannot easily censorship nor detect Coldwire usage, because we have built-in protocol obfsucation support.
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- **Metadata‑Free**: Random 16‑digit session IDs, no server contacts, no logs, no server‑side metadata, enforced passwordless authentication.
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### Archived, no longer recommended for use
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## ⚠️ Disclaimer
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While Coldwire enforces paranoid‑level security features, the [protocol](https://github.com/Freedom-Club-Sec/Coldwire/blob/main/PROTOCOL.md), and codebase are under active development.
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**Do not** use for production‑grade secrecy until an formal audit is complete.
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## Installation
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### Dependecies
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- liboqs-python
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- git
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- CMake
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- C compiler
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- Python 3
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Install [liboqs-python](https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python/) by running:
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```sh
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git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/open-quantum-safe/liboqs-python
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cd liboqs-python
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pip install .
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```
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Clone Coldwire repository and install `requirements.txt` by running:
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git clone https://github.com/Freedom-Club-Sec/Coldwire
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cd Coldwire
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pip install -r requirements.txt
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```
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## Usage
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Run Coldwire's GUI using:
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```sh
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python3 main.py
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```
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Use [Coldwire Desktop](https://github.com/Freedom-Club-Sec/Coldwire-Desktop) instead: https://github.com/Freedom-Club-Sec/Coldwire-Desktop

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