Nice video on bitmessage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_dTotavJZ8
On 1 April 2013 10:22, Philip Hands <[email protected]> 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. > > 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. > > Cheers, Phil. > -- > |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ > |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ > |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss >
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