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Re: [tor-talk] Secure email with limited usable metadata



On 08/10/2013 05:34 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> There were a few threads over on tor-talk in which a gmail staff
>> participated. Some community suggestion was made for refundable
>> bitcoin deposit to appease the google claims, not sure where that
>> went.
>> 
> 
> We're still paying attention. Actually I don't work on Google
> anti-abuse anymore (different project these days) but am still
> happy to provide our perspective and contacts. Google is not an
> enemy of the Tor project, we just struggle with the same issues all
> other providers do.
> 
> The "community suggestion" to use Bitcoin was actually my
> suggestion. It didn't go anywhere partly because it's fairly
> complicated and partly because Mike Perry and others from Tor felt
> Bitcoin wasn't anonymous enough, and desired a different system. So
> it's not really clear what the right approach is, technically.
> 
> You may be interested in checking out Pond, the work of another 
> crypto/Tor-friendly Googler:
> 
> https://pond.imperialviolet.org/
> 
> It is an email-like messaging system that runs over Tor, has
> forward security, tries to beat traffic analysis, TPM integration
> to beat log structured filesystems that can't erase data and also
> has a variety of other interesting features. It's not a drop in
> replacement for email by any means, but with some more work it
> might be a reasonable alternative for specialised use case.
> 

This project is pretty much what I have been looking for. Seems like a
good chance (excuse) for me to learn Go as well. But there seems to be
a lack of clues on how to get involved.
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