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

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 11:34:53PM -0700, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> For certain common purposes, one would not want anonymity, but pseudonymity
> along with certain pairs and groups having true name sharing or reputational
> pseudonyms, federated identities, etc.
> 
> Messages should have verifiable provenance, protection, and sometimes known chain of evidence.
> 
> There should be methods to determine leakers, and similar bad actors.

HA!

SDW-Fed pops up again.

  > There should be methods to determine leakers, and similar bad
  > actors.

Absolutely precious!

Parody, irony, subterfuge attempt, or plain ole Jewish Chutzpah -
whatever in hell your smokin', there ain't no freedom in it...

Chuckle of the day dept.




> It should be possible to limit DDoS and similar abuse that tries to disable the network; hard to do if everything is anonymous.
> 
> Perhaps this could be layered on to bitmessage or a similar but different system.
> 
> Stephen
> 
> On 8/23/19 12:22 PM, Steven Schear wrote:
> > The lead developer is Peter Surda.
> > 
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 5:07 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen at freedbms.net <mailto:zen at freedbms.net>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:29:52PM -0000, cypherpunk at danwin1210.me <mailto: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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