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

Steven Schear schear.steve at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 12:22:26 PDT 2019


The lead developer is Peter Surda.

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 5:07 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:

> 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...
>
>
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