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| − | Bitmessage is a secure P2P communications [[Protocol specification|protocol]] used to send messages to another person or to many people. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities, like root certificate authorities. It also aims to hide "call detail" information, like the sender and receiver of messages, from eavesdroppers. | + | Bitmessage is a secure P2P communications [[Protocol specification|protocol]] used to send messages to another person or to many people. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities, like root certificate authorities. It also aims to hide "call detail" information, like the sender and receiver of messages, from eavesdroppers. If Bitmessage is completely new to you, you may wish to start by reading the [http://bitmessage.org/bitmessage.pdf whitepaper]. |
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Bitmessage is a secure P2P communications protocol used to send messages to another person or to many people. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities, like root certificate authorities. It also aims to hide "call detail" information, like the sender and receiver of messages, from eavesdroppers. If Bitmessage is completely new to you, you may wish to start by reading the whitepaper.
Download
An open source client, PyBitmessage, is available for free under the very liberal MIT license.
Download for Windows
View source code
You may view the Python source code on Github and run it directly. PyBitmessage requires PyQt. Step-by-step instructions on how to run the source code on Windows is available here.
Patches are welcome as are security audits.
