Ouroboros: Handshake + EtherSync

What it does

Ouroboros is an open-source framework for private communication without centralized discovery servers. It combines Handshake (deterministic 1:1 secure sessions with QR flows and network fallback) and EtherSync (passphrase-derived encrypted spaces for async messages and chunked file sharing). This launch adds a guided desktop UX, robust daemon lifecycle (reconnect/reclaim/live logs), runtime diagnostics, and backlog replay on rejoin for recent EtherSync history.

P2P FRAMEWORK Private communication, encrypted shared spaces, and route emergence from inside the same secret context. - OmarPrampolini/Ouroboros

In the maker’s words, at launch

After watching too many "privacy" apps get subpoenaed or shut down, I wanted a communication tool that literally cannot be shut down because it has no servers to seize. Ouroboros is a Rust-based P2P stack with two modes: 1. Live sessions: Two peers connect directly using just a shared passphrase. The passphrase…

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