Quote from: hypersire on August 10, 2013, 01:50:47 AMĬan they be trusted with our data? Are they an American company? And are they as secure as Lavabit? I am eagerly awaiting the release of StartMail, from the StartPage developers: It doesn't make sense that the government is spending so much money and effort collecting all of this private data just to catch the dumbest terrorists out there.
The sad thing is that encryption is complicated enough that the average law-abiding citizen will not jump through the hoops required to get it up and running, but so cheap and easily accessible that any criminal or terrorist smart enough to pose a real threat can easily incorporate it. Bitmessage uses public-key cryptography to encrypt a message and mix one encrypted message along with other encrypted messages so that users’ identities remain concealed. They will eventually make the app for PCs but not until they've completed the phone version. What is Bitmessage Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer, trustless communication protocol that is used to send encrypted messages to one or multiple persons.
BITMESSAGE VS LAVABIT ANDROID
The only down side to all of this is that the app will only be available for iOS and Android devices. A US appeals court has upheld a contempt of court ruling against Lavabit, a supposedly secure email service, which was reported to be used by the worlds most. I donated $5 worth of BTC to the project and in return will receive to codes to unlock some feature when the app is released. I haven't heard much talk about it from the Bitcoin community and they were even taking Bitcoin donations. Well then what about The PirateBay's encrypted chat messaging project? There's too much network effect to overcome.
Unless it becomes possible to send and receive messages to non-bitmessage users I highly doubt it will gain much acceptance. I assume someone has already mentioned (even though it's not email) it could replace email someday as a secure alternative.
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