IP-Chat

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IP-Chat

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Preamble
Relying on third party servers for communication will always be a problem- services come and go, servers may be down (sometimes- for quite some time) and there will always be privacy issues (what is logged, who has access to the logs, etc). While direct, peer-to-peer communication cannot be taken down and is harder to spy on. IP-Chat is a simple and easy to configure program which does not rely on external chat servers, anyone can host a server or connect to a server.

Synopsis
IP-Chat is a small tool that lets you to chat with one or more chat partners by connecting to the hoster's server IP. This application can setup a chat room on the internet or a local network.

To get started, one of you has to host a server with a valid port (if you are behind a router, forward the TCP & UDP ports you are hosting on), then your chat partners connect to you using the server IP and port. Depending in which network you want to chat, you should give your chat partners either your external IP (to chat on the internet) or internal IP (to chat on a local network).
Features
  • Chat with one or more persons at once
  • Host a local or global server (internet or local network)
  • Sound notifications on joining/leaving, chatting etc.
  • Ability to change own input text color
  • Ability to send private messages to users
  • Ability to (automatically) save chat logs
  • Ability to move IP-Chat to the system tray
  • Window automatically clips to screen borders if its beyond these
  • Uses a secured connection, where messages are encrypted with Blowfish
Links
Website - http://2xdsoft.de.tl/IP_Chat.htm
Publisher - http://2xdsoft.de.tl/
Softpedia - http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/C ... Chat.shtml

Downloads
Current version of IP-Chat - 1.3, can be downloaded from Yandex.Disk. Softpedia is hosting an older version with the same version number which does not support portable mode.

Images

IP-Chat version 1.3 - start screen:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - host server:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - Connect to server:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - chat window - host:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - chat window - visitor:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - sound options:

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IP-Chat version 1.3 - chat log:

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Portability
To use IP-Chat in portable mode run the executable with " -portable" parameter:

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IP-Chat v1.3.exe -portable
or rename the executable from IP-Chat v1.3.exe to IP-Chat.exe to save efforts when updating to a newer version:

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IP-Chat.exe -portable
When started with " -portable" parameter IP-Chat is portable and stealth. If IP-Chat is not started with " -portable" parameter settings file (2xdsoft_ipchat.settings) will be saved in AppData (C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\2xdsoft_ipchat.settings).
Command line options
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Currently there is only a single command line option, that makes IP-Chat save

its settings file to its root folder. To apply this, append " -portable" to the end

of the target path of IP-Chat. From the explorer, you first must create a shortcut

of IP-Chat, right click, properties, append " -portable" to the target path.
Instructions
  • Download the archive (IP-Chat%20v1.3.zip);
  • Extract the archive to a folder of your choice;
  • Run the executable with " -portable" argument;
  • Settings will be saved in ipchat.settings file inside program folder;
Requirements
IP-Chat should run on all version of Windows from XP to 10 (according to Softpedia).

License
IP-Chat is closed-source freeware.

Note
Thanks to the developer for implementing portable mode upon my request.
For those who may experience problems downloading from Yandex.Disk I have uploaded the latest version of IP-Chat (as of 2017-08-04) to another file host- http://ge.tt/6LSGF3m2.

Details
File details for IP-Chat version 1.3 (released on 2017-08-03).

Name: IP-Chat%20v1.3.zip
File Size: 2052753 Byte(s) (1.96 MB)
MD5: 48976fb3806d563a0ec10128d749d343
SHA1: 4cc0406a200a51399b30fa7b4ffae86914d8483c
SHA256: 48179739387a8918cd984da7912ceb94f0d7e863063ab8aff9b2c179e38f07c1
SHA512: 0ae868ee8338ad50a424223386b7eeeefde54fb22c74b4f955c559026aecf8a6d2824da20a4935ca4f74e4f477c5baf0ffb8fc5e0e45b0700fcfbc1a7dd71e76

VirusTotal analysis
SHA256: 48179739387a8918cd984da7912ceb94f0d7e863063ab8aff9b2c179e38f07c1
File name: IP-Chat%20v1.3.zip
Detection ratio: 3 / 59
Analysis date: 2017-08-04 02:24:54 UTC

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