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[Cryptography] BitMessage?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Nelson)
Fri Oct 25 15:01:20 2013
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From: Russ Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:41:04 -0400
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I haven't seen any discussion of BitMessage (http://bitmessage.org)
here yet. The idea is to be a mixer with a pool of recipients, which
currently seems to be 12,000ish. Before anybody will receive your
message, they need to see a proof of work. Once they do, they forward
the message to everyone else, using a flood-fill algorithm. Messages
are encrypted so only the recipient can decode them. Mailing lists are
simulated via a shared private key.
It looks plausible. Not obviously snake oil.
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