Communication is inherently insecure-to one degree or another. I agree with your two points, but any system involves tradeoffs. Bitmessage is new and it hasn’t had a security audit, so you should really treat it as a toy or proof-of-concept. No money or personally identifying info changes hands (meaning actual privacy and anonymity are possible) and there’s no special configuration to do.Ĭaveat emptor. With Bitmessage you start up the software, it automatically finds and connects to peers on the network, and it’s off to the races. You could always set up your own email server, but it’s, shall we say, extremely nontrivial to do so in a secure, reliable manner: guarding yourself against spammers, setting up DNS records, getting a static IP address, etc. But more than that, you’re no longer relying on anyone else’s servers in order to receive messages. I can see it getting much better adoption than PGP/GnuPG ever did. With Bitmessage, everything is encrypted and it’s not all that hard to use. In short, at the most basic levels, the very design of traditional email makes it hard to use securely. If you care enough about privacy and liberty to use encryption in the first place, this creates something of a poser for you. But it made no attempt to solve the first problem: you still had to get an account on someone else’s server (or devote large amounts of time and cognitive overhead to running your own, and usually leaving sloppy trails of money all over the place). PGP’s approach was to use regular email and manually encrypt the text of the message. I’ve thought off and on about that second problem ever since I experimented with PGP in the late 90s. Sending an email is like sending a postcard. You hope that server is reliable and that the people running it are trustworthy.
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#BITMESSAGE VS DOWNLOAD#
To use it, you download the client, create a bunch of addresses which you advertise or keep secret or hand out to your pals, and just let the program sit there until you get a message. It’s intended to be an alternative or a replacement for email. I’ve been testing Bitmessage for a few days now.
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