Bitmessage - Anonymous, Encrypted, Secure Messaging, Chans, and Broadcasts

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:29:52PM -0000, cypherpunk at danwin1210.me wrote:
> Bitmessage - Anonymous, Encrypted, Secure Messaging, Chans, and Broadcasts
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> There is a uncensorable messaging and discussion network, Bitmessage. It
> is a decentralized and trustless peer-to-peer protocol. It sports a slick
> graphical interface that works like a mail client. The UX is snappy and
> easy even for Grandma. Management of cryptography keys and signing is
> automatic under the hood and is never exposed to the end user. It is an
> order of magnitude easier to use than PGP or GnuPG.
> 
> https://bitmessage.org
> https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage
> 
> Bitmessage works like the old mixnets or remailers but much more securely.
> It is highly resistant to eavesdropping and censorship. The lead developer
> is from the old cypherpunk culture.
> 
> Bitmessage has several useful features:
> 
> * Connect via Tor
> * Anonymous chans
> * Anonymous broadcasts
> * Anonymous distributed mailing list repeaters
> * Private messaging addresses
> * Automatic management of all cryptography keys
> 
> You can run bitmessage in a firejail on Linux for extra extra security.
> We've found only one security hole in over six years of development, and
> we're pretty confident that it is very secure "out of the box" at this
> time.
> 
> If you want to help the network please configure a node to accept incoming
> connections to increase the speed and security of the network against
> traffic analysis. The more peers that accept incoming connections the more
> resilient the network becomes.
> 
> Please share this resource with all the mailing lists to which you are
> subscribed, with your friends, and on bulletin boards.
> 
> I hope to see you on the Bitmessage channel, [chan] cypherpunks.
> 
> To subscribe to this chan in Bitmessage, click on the 'Chans' tab, then
> click the 'Add chan' button, then enter the passphrase 'cypherpunks' and
> click OK.
> 
> The crypto community has been hijacked by shills who try to control the
> discussion and keep people in the dark about the sad state of privacy.
> There are a lot of pro-law-enforcement shills who are trying to move us
> into back-doored crypto. The "leaders" have hidden agendas. They keep
> rolling out broken cryptography full of security holes (how convenient),
> then tell the rest of us to never roll our own crypto (how inconvenient
> for them), that we should put all our eggs in their leaky basket.
> 
> a old cypherpunk


On the face of the above marketing, checking all the right boxes -
that's a good start.

Needs to be at the top of a few bucket lists to review the
architecture, compare, etc.

Thank you for the heads up...