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SilverMetal/stack/chat/README.md
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Cross-platform privacy-hardening program. Two-layer product:
- SilverLABS Application Stack (cross-platform spine)
- Platform Hardening Profiles (per-OS, tier-honest)

Platforms: Linux (Debian/Kicksecure), Android (Pixel/Samsung/Moto/generic),
Windows (LTSC IoT), macOS (profile), iOS (MDM profile). Each flavour has
both a preflashed hardware SKU path and a self-apply "harden your existing
device" path.

Includes umbrella docs (README + threat-model, design-principles,
platform-matrix, roadmap, trust-model), per-platform and per-stack-
component README stubs, .gitignore, LICENSE.

Linux v1 ships first; Stack v1 = Browser + VPN + Sync.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-04-25 03:11:48 +01:00

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SilverChat

Status: v1.1 (planning)

End-to-end encrypted messenger. Ships post-MVP.

Approach (tentative — to be finalised before v1.1)

Two candidate paths:

  1. Matrix-based — Synapse or Dendrite homeserver, custom client per platform. Pros: federated, mature, large existing ecosystem. Cons: metadata leakage in federation, complex protocol.
  2. Signal-protocol-based — fork the Signal codebase, run own server. Pros: gold-standard cryptography, simpler client. Cons: forking the Signal protocol is socially fraught; less feature-rich than Matrix.

Decision documented in docs/decisions/ once made.

Non-negotiables

  • Account-number-based identity (not phone, not email)
  • E2EE by default, no opt-out
  • Self-hostable server
  • No telemetry from client
  • Forward secrecy
  • Backup keys remain on user devices

Per-platform clients

To be defined post-decision. Likely Tauri-based or per-platform-native depending on protocol choice.

Out of scope (for now)

  • Voice/video calling — v1.2+
  • Group sizes >100 — Matrix supports, but we may cap at 100 for v1.1 simplicity