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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: tonykash on May 02, 2013, 07:15 pm

Title: i2p-Bote Decentralized email
Post by: tonykash on May 02, 2013, 07:15 pm
I've hung out on the i2p network for some time now. I've always used tormail because it was just there, but they have been down for days and are unreliable. I've been meaning to setup i2p-Bote for email. Has anyone used it? For those that don't know, i2p is another anonymous network.

From the wiki

I2P-Bote is an I2P-internal, fully decentralized and distributed e-mail system. It supports different identities and does not expose e-mail headers. Currently, it is still alpha software and can only be accessed via its web interface, but POP support is planned. All bote-mails are transparently end-to-end encrypted and, optionally, signed by the sender's public key, thus removing the need for PGP or other privacy software. I2P-Bote offers additional anonymity by allowing for the use of mail relays with variable length delays. As it is decentralized, there is no e-mail server that could link different e-mail identities as communicating with each other (profiling): Even the nodes relaying the mails do not know the sender, and apart from sender and receiver, only the end of the high-latency mail route and the storing nodes will know to whom (which I2P node - the user's ip is still hidden by I2P) the mail is destined. The original sender can have gone offline long before the mail becomes available on the other side.