# Session

> Session: Metadata-resistant messenger.

Part of the Soda Labs Privacy Hub, a neutral directory of the on-chain privacy
landscape: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub

## Key facts

- Entry type: Privacy project
- Category: Metadata-resistant messenger
- Website: https://getsession.org
- Tags: messaging, onion routing, no-phone-number
- Canonical page: https://www.sodalabs.xyz/privacy-hub/session

## Overview

Session is an encrypted messenger that needs no phone number and no email address, routing messages through an onion network so that even the servers cannot see who is talking to whom. Most secure messengers protect content while still collecting the social graph through phone-number registration, and Session removes that at the root. The published research behind it is peer-reviewed. Decentralized routing means messages can be slower to deliver than on centralized alternatives.

## Sources

- [Website](https://getsession.org)
- [Docs](https://docs.oxen.io/oxen-docs/products-built-on-oxen/session)
- [Whitepaper](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04609)
- [Source](https://github.com/oxen-io)
- [Explorer](https://oxen.observer/)

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