Bitmessage?

d.nix d.nix@comcast.net
Sun Sep 29 22:47:30 PDT 2013


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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:

https://bitmessage.ch/

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

BM-2D9fgf9MeGhq9Fxcwg1k2W1C179KJuUEFg

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