Hoy, I have found some relatively long thread https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=1666.0 with security analysis and it does not seems like really rock solid protocol. My personal experience is that most of the people I have tried BitMessage with where not able to tolerate really long and unpredictable latency of messages. During first week of tests we have tried to send like 150 messages with friends and only circa half of them where delivered, even none of us turned off client. If you are not activist with month of time, to deliver all of your followers invitation to prepared demonstration against spying on emails, there is no use for this in the way, how it is implemented. Another problem was -+2days of time, before client was fully synced with network. In case, I'm not connected few weeks and than I need to wait 2 days again to fully sync... no use. But it was just first impression, client deleted from hdd. ~ Tomas Dne 30.9.2013 7:47, d.nix napsal(a):
I've seen little or no discussion of Bitmessage, and was wondering what thoughts - pro or con - people have of it:
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
I've got it up and running and have exchanged messages with a friend and well as a few other folks testing the waters. One thing I like about it, is that it seems at first glance to not suffer from the same sort of traffic analysis issues that plague regular email; to me, the traffic analysis problems are a bigger issue than message encryption. One could also paste PGP/GPG or other encrypted content into Bitmessage for your super duper secret stuff where you are concerned the recipients machine is compromised.
There's apparently a standard email gateway for it also:
Tho, that may bring you back to the problems of traffic analysis.
I'd also love to see more mix network stuff getting developed so we could help secure against traffic analysis of existing systems. Tom Ritter's talk on analyzing mix network traffic was quite cool:
http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm_followup1.html
But anyhow, Bitmessage; yay or nay?
Dave
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