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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: nertu on February 17, 2013, 07:07 pm

Title: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: nertu on February 17, 2013, 07:07 pm
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: avast on February 17, 2013, 07:34 pm
Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers

https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page

Tor chat works fine for me.

Call it a hunch, but I have a bad feeling about this Bitmessage. Anyone else know anything about it?
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: nertu on February 17, 2013, 07:38 pm
torchat is good, but it's a chat, both users need to be online at the same time
in bitmessage this isn't needed

if you want to chat securely with someone, torchat remains the best solution
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: Yoda on February 17, 2013, 07:57 pm
I've never seen Jacob Appelbaum or other TorProject people advocate this software.    https://www.torproject.org/about/corepeople.html.en

And a quick google brought this up:   http://bitslog.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/bitmessage-completely-broken-crypto/

If I'm wrong, please post the links.  Doesn't sound like I'll be using it though.
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: nertu on February 17, 2013, 08:08 pm
the date of post on bitslog is 2012/11/30

https://bitmessage.org/w/index.php?title=Changelog&action=history

the blogger was probably using the 0.1.3 or older, there are many changes from it.
I'm not so expert, we should ask bitslog an updated review.
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: nertu on February 21, 2013, 06:20 pm
0.2.5
Bugfix-only release: Program improperly handles other nodes claiming to be in stream 0 (issue appeared when implementing IPv6). UI Freezes.
Title: Re: Bitmessage is a decentralized alternative to the email
Post by: nertu on February 27, 2013, 06:28 pm
0.2.6
New Feature: Pseudo-mailing-lists (available by right-clicking one of your addresses)
New Feature: Portable Mode (available in the settings)
Added missing context menu on the blacklist tab