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Show HN: Seal – Open-source P2P encrypted chat in Rust and Tauri

emn4tor — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:04:25 +0000

Hey y'all, I've built a completely free open-source p2p Messanger in my free-time. Most 'private' messengers still rely on central server infrastructure to queue and hold messages in an inbox - that makes it a target for metadata or message collection.

With Seal there is NO Server-Side Inbox: Every Message directly travels from peer to peer via libp2p. Every Message is 'sealed' using Olm (1:1) and Megolm for groups via vodozemac The only server needed is a directory server, which purely acts asa short-lived adress lookup table

The Architecture is interesting too, your chat identity is an Ed25519/Curve25519 keypair generated locally, your public ID is simply the key fingerprint.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the project.

I used Claude to help draft the initial code comments explaining the reasoning behind key architectural decisions, but I manually reviewed, audited, and corrected every single comment.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257662

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New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?"

emn4tor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:28:52 +0000

Interesting, tho I gotta ask how much of it is done by ai/what role AI played in this project, because Claude even added itself as co-author lol. Will check it out later

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?"

emn4tor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:26:41 +0000

Checked it out, looks extremely cool, couldn't move in the beta playtest, will bookmark and check again later :)

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?"

emn4tor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:23:59 +0000

Ohhh, that is such a cool project

Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

emn4tor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:16:29 +0000

Hey HN, I was wondering what projects you've finished that made you think that you actually made something really cool. I'm looking for some revolutionary, or just cool REPOs or tools I can check out, lemme see them :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237715

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New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

emn4tor — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:02:55 +0000

that's such a cool project and congrats on that article, looks nice. Good luck on your game-dev path :)

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:40:18 +0000

Oh that sounds too extremely cool, have a 5yo brother, will definitely show this to him, wish you all the best on your journey :)

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:38:28 +0000

I'm currently working on an open-source End-to-End Encrypted P2P Chat-Platform similar to matrix but with the thinnest backend possible, the backend is a a simple directory server + relay, nothing more you can find more about it in the readme on GitHub :) https://github.com/Emn4tor/Seal

New comment by emn4tor in "Which editing tool using in 2026?"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:19:30 +0000

On Mac I haven't decided between Davinci Resolve and FinalCut, even tho Premiere is great, it's Adobe so meh. On Linux I use Davinci Resolve with some tricks to get the good codecs, would use Davinci on Windows too

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: If you don't read books, what do you read?"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:17:52 +0000

Ive been reading a lot of docs and not gonna lie it can be interesting just reading how a matrix works exactly for 3 hours straight. Ive read an article about how chopsticks where made, just those random informations you will never need again lol

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: How do you use claude code / codex at work for your enterprise?"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:15:45 +0000

I am moving further away from just telling an AI to 'fix' something, instead ive started using it for docs and codebase analysis that runs while I code myself.

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What you using local models for?"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:14:05 +0000

There are dozens of things you can find a list of things you can do here https://www.kdnuggets.com/5-cool-things-i-did-with-local-lan.... I always loved experimenting, building HomeAssistant, and tbh everything you don't want any public AI to know about you

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: Should AI's tell you they're AI?"

emn4tor — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:11:18 +0000

Yes definitely, I don't even see a single positive reason why they should be allowed to lie. Ive seen a lot of scams lately with AI's being used myself and it's scary how real they sound in tone etc. So a big YES from me

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: What art would you like to express?"

emn4tor — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:56:38 +0000

Im lowkey trying out everything, I'm not really good at anything but I'd say drawing, music production and book writing are all awesome. I always say 'Being decent in a lot of different things is way cooler than being the best at ...'

New comment by emn4tor in "Ask HN: Sane casual family co-op game on mobile?"

emn4tor — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:44:28 +0000

Most games are cluttered with micro transactions and unethical data harvesting. You should look for indie games instead of the big scam companies, stuff like Voodoo was always there, low effort apps cluttered with ads and paywalls. Some of my favorites are: Terraria of course - it's a timeless classic game with so many options, looks boring at first but you have endless options. Second is The Past within, it's a clever co-op puzzle game built entirely around communication. You are solving the same mystery from two different time periods, sharing clues to unlock each other's puzzles. Zero ads, zero microtransactions. I really LOVE Bloons TD 6, it's a tower defense game where you both place monkey towers on the same map to stop incoming balloon waves. BTD6 has IAPs, but they are purely optional skips. You can earn every tower, upgrade, and map just by playing normally. There is still Minecraft of course, but its Microsoft which is meh... The last one on my list would be Human Fall Flat which Ive never actually played myself but it was sitting on my wishlist forever, never had anyone to play it with tho, worth checking out. If you want to bypass app store garbage entirely, another route is looking at Apple Arcade or Google Play Pass, which explicitly ban ads and microtransactions across their entire catalogs.