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Bug 477080 - net-p2p/pybitmessage - Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers
Summary: net-p2p/pybitmessage - Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to se...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: https://bitmessage.org/
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Reported: 2013-07-16 15:13 UTC by Yuan Ye
Modified: 2013-07-22 22:02 UTC (History)
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Description Yuan Ye 2013-07-16 15:13:07 UTC
"Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer-based email network that can be used by one person to send encrypted email to another person, or to multiple subscribers. Bitmessage encrypts each users' email inbox using strong encryption and replicates it inside its P2P network mixing it with inboxes of other users in order to conceal user's identity, prevent email eavesdropping and protect the network from any control. The Bitmessage protocol avoids sender-spoofing through strong authentication, and hides metadata from wiretapping programs.

The software experienced a surge of new adoptions resulting from Edward Snowden's disclosure of the National Security Agency's email surveillance activities. Currently, the network processes more than a thousand private messages per week."  -- wikipedia

source code:
https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage
[there is a ebuild.sh script in the source tree which may be helpful]

compiling instructions:
https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Compiling_instructions
Comment 1 Yuan Ye 2013-07-17 12:15:24 UTC
A 9999 ebuild from the bitmessage forum:
https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php/topic,1413.0.html
Comment 2 Julian Ospald 2013-07-22 22:02:39 UTC
+*pybitmessage-9999 (22 Jul 2013)
+
+  22 Jul 2013; Julian Ospald <hasufell@gentoo.org> +pybitmessage-9999.ebuild,
+  +metadata.xml:
+  initial import wrt #477080