[kwlug-disc] Secure email alternative

Alex K korobkin+kwl at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 12:40:27 EDT 2016


https://tox.chat could have been very close to what you want, but its
offline messaging functionality is very basic at the moment. You can get
around it with email-to-tox bridges, or pseudo-offline clients.

Freenet has Freemail.
i2p has email apps.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 3:09 AM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> I am looking for the following communications platform:
>
> - Allows asynchronous communications, like email.
> - Is based on a client-server model, with clients for multiple
>   platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X) and a server that is FLOSS and
>   installable on Linux.
> - Requires registration to use (preferably by submitting a public SSH
>   key).
> - Does NOT have a web client or web interface.
> - If the server requires opening a port on the Internet, the
>   communications to that port should be authenticated and preferably
>   encrypted.
>
> I do NOT want email with GPG or S/MIME or whatever. The service does
> NOT need to be federated. I am indifferent whether whether the data is
> encrypted on the server so that sysadmins cannot snoop on it.
>
> Yes, I understand that this is an odd set of requirements. Does such a
> thing exist already? I am not sure what search terms to use.
>
> - Paul
>
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>
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