On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 09:22:16AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Hi, > > I note that there's been no mention of BitMessage, so I thought I'd > mention it: > > https://bitmessage.org/ > > https://bitmessage.org/wiki/FAQ > > it's doing something a bit like email using something similar to the > bitcoin P2P network for passing encrypted messages around in a way that > ensures that it's not possible to see who's talking to who. It encrypts > the whole message, so not leaking via the headers.
The question is how scalable that thing is. > Then again, it's early days, it needs a security audit and seems to have > had significant security issues in earlier versions, so no clue when it > might be ready for real use, and its not packaged for Debian, so nothing > for Freedombox right now ... but probably worth keeping an eye on. > > On the down side, addresses are long base58 strings, and you'll have to > change addresses as the network grows, but I imagine that people will > come up with some way of mapping memorable names to those addresses at > some point. On another downside is that unthrottled it will tend to saturate scarce upstream on your domestic broadband. _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
