Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Ingle
SSL: I get it, a lot of people think I should have SSL support on the website. I will look into it. Until then (and even after) check the sigs. Nuff said. Back to Confidant Mail: interesting project, kind of reminds me of BitMessage, though it seems to be more usable (by far). I looked at

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Ingle
That is an interesting point. Thinking this through in the game theory sense: Spooks' choice: 1: never mess with Tor downloads 2: mess with Tor downloads in rare cases of high value targets (where a selector like IP or cookie matches) 3: frequently mess with Tor downloads Effect of 1: they

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Ingle
Mike Ingle m...@confidantmail.org People who are interested in testing, please set up an account and email me. The test servers have Tor hidden service entries, so you can try out anonymous mode. Mike On 2/3/2015 5:51 PM, michael ball wrote: On *Tue Feb 3, Mike Ingle wrote:* I don't have

[tor-talk] Confidant Mail binaries for TAILS and MacOS

2015-02-07 Thread Mike Ingle
Confidant Mail 0.20 is available at http://www.confidantmail.org No major functional changes, but there are ready to run binaries for TAILS Live CD 1.2.3 and MacOS 10.9 Confidant Mail is an encrypted, and optionally Tor-anonymized, email system supporting large file transfers. Mike Ingle m

Re: [tor-talk] Confidant Mail

2015-02-03 Thread Mike Ingle
On 2/3/2015 10:31 AM, Kevin wrote: On 2/3/2015 12:33 PM, krishna e bera wrote: On 15-02-02 09:57 PM, Mike Ingle wrote: http://www.confidantmail.org Mike Ingle m...@confidantmail.org d2b89e6f95e72e26e0c917d02d1847dfecfcd0c2 I am curious why someone delivering security and privacy software does

[tor-talk] New Tor-based private mail system: Confidant Mail

2015-02-02 Thread Mike Ingle
can also run your own servers, optionally as a hidden service. If you want a better secure and anonymous mail system, this is it. Please set up an account and try out the software. http://www.confidantmail.org Mike Ingle m...@confidantmail.org d2b89e6f95e72e26e0c917d02d1847dfecfcd0c2 -- tor

Re: [tor-talk] Hidden Service (Nginx) setup guide

2015-02-13 Thread Mike Ingle
Setting up the hidden service itself is easy. Steps 1 thru 97 are set up your website and get it working and secured. Step 98: add a few lines to your torrc, possibly set some directory permissions. Step 99: restart Tor, get your hidden service address. Step 100: test using Tails. The hard

Re: [tor-talk] New Tor-based private mail system: Confidant Mail

2015-03-05 Thread Mike Ingle
HTTPS is now installed on the site. New version is up for download. On 2/3/2015 9:33 AM, krishna e bera wrote: On 15-02-02 09:57 PM, Mike Ingle wrote: http://www.confidantmail.org Mike Ingle m...@confidantmail.org d2b89e6f95e72e26e0c917d02d1847dfecfcd0c2 I am curious why someone

Re: [tor-talk] Fixing the problem of sending email from Tor: Proof of Work based system

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Ingle
He was talking about using a proof of work for anti-spam purposes. That requires support at both ends. Encryption and signatures also require support at both ends. For all those reasons I think that secure and anonymous email needs a new protocol. It should not be patched onto SMTP. People

Re: [tor-talk] Fixing the problem of sending email from Tor: Proof of Work based system

2015-03-02 Thread Mike Ingle
That email system, with built in Tor support and proof of work based anti-spam, has already been built. Get it here: http://www.confidantmail.org Mike Ingle m...@confidantmail.org d2b89e6f95e72e26e0c917d02d1847dfecfcd0c2 On 3/2/2015 7:15 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists wrote: Hi all

Re: [tor-talk] send email through the Tor network

2015-05-10 Thread Mike Ingle
On 5/10/2015 3:13 PM, Cameron Hernandez wrote: If I use a web email using the tor browser, does that mean the email will be sent through the tor network? -Cam No. Your HTTP session will go through Tor, but the email will be sent unencrypted over the Internet, unless you encrypted it

Re: [tor-talk] Mailpile SMTorP [ref: nexgen P2P email]

2015-05-28 Thread Mike Ingle
On 5/28/2015 7:34 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: On 05/26/2015 09:13 PM, Mike Ingle wrote: I tried out Bitmessage and it did not seem to deliver without the sender and recipient online. It's supposed to, it just didn't. Waiting for key exchange. Any response from the devs/forum when you reported

[tor-talk] Confidant Mail, was re: Mailpile SMTorP

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Ingle
Confidant Mail is another next-gen mail architecture worth a look. You can access servers directly, via exit node, via hidden service, or via I2P. You can have your mail hosted on your own server, on someone else's server, or in the Distributed Hash Table. In the server case there is no limit

Re: [tor-talk] Mailpile SMTorP [ref: nexgen P2P email]

2015-05-26 Thread Mike Ingle
I tried out Bitmessage and it did not seem to deliver without the sender and recipient online. It's supposed to, it just didn't. Waiting for key exchange. It's also a bandwidth pig due to its broadcast nature. What about Bitmessage? -Jonathan -- tor-talk mailing list -

Re: [tor-talk] Mailpile SMTorP [ref: nexgen P2P email]

2015-05-29 Thread Mike Ingle
I'm not trying to offend anyone. I was talking about broadcast everything systems in general. Bitmessage is a fine implementation of the broadcast everything paradigm. I'm looking for an intermediate between broadcast everything and SMTP-over-Tor. My proposal is essentially: servers form a