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 <z...@freedbms.net > > <mailto:z...@freedbms.net>> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:29:52PM -0000, cypherp...@danwin1210.me > > <mailto:cypherp...@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... > > > > -- > > > *Stephen D. Williams* > Founder: Yebo, VolksDroid, Blue Scholar > 650-450-8649 <tel:650-450-8649> | fax:703-995-0407 <fax:> | s...@lg.net > <mailto:s...@lig.net> | https://HelloYebo.com | https://VolksDroid.org | > https://BlueScholar.com | https://sdw.st/in >