[tor-talk] Mailpile SMTorP [ref: nexgen P2P email]

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Thu May 21 07:41:46 UTC 2015


Mailpile is interesting because it moves the concept of "webmail"
from the remote service (where the user is nothing more than
enslaved cannon fodder) to the user locally as an embeddable
daemon.

This eliminates the fact that all these new centralised OpenPGP
webmail providers will have access to your keys/cleartext, because
either:
A) it resides there
B) the malware they give you to run in your browser gives it away.

Mailpile is now looking to deliver directly between onions [1].

https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP
https://github.com/mailpile/Mailpile/issues/1131

They could probably use some thoughts / hands / review.


[1] A model somewhat similar to that outlined in thread
"The next gen P2P secure email solution"
https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2013-December/002638.html
...
https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2014-July/004900.html


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