GoldBug is a decentralized & secure communication suite that offers an integrated e-mail client, an instant messenger & a file transfer. Also included is an URL-RSS-DB & a p2p web search.

Current vers. w/ McEliece Algorithm.

GoldBug has been 2013 - 2023 ten years just another Graphical User Interface of the Spot-On Encryption Suite.
Main GUI features: Minimal & colorful Interface with Tabs in the East.

Microsoft & Qt MinGW deprecated Win32 & for Compiling:
https://sourceforge.net/p/goldbug/wiki/compiling

As Spot-On implemented the minimal GB-concept & Nuvola Icons, GoldBug has now been fully integrated into Spot-On Win64:
Just choose Tabs at East & Mini-View in Options - w/ Nuvola Icons of course! Voilá! & Many Thanks, Pro-Files can be found archived at
● current source: https://github.com/textbrowser/spot-on

● EN Manual: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3749435065
● DE: https://compendio.github.io/goldbug-manual-de/
● Study: https://www.amazon.com/asin/dp/3750408971

Features

  • Alpha processors.
  • Authenticated and encrypted SQLite and PostgreSQL URL databases.
  • BSD license.
  • Bluetooth, SCTP, TCP, UDP.
  • Configurable thread priorities.
  • Custom URL rules.
  • Custom socket options.
  • DSA, ECDSA, EdDSA, ElGamal, McEliece, NTRU, RSA.
  • DTLS.
  • Debian packages.
  • Distributed URL system.
  • Distributed e-mail.
  • E-mail (IMAP, POP, Spot-On).
  • Echo public-key distribution system.
  • End-to-End, not Hop-to-Hop encryption.
  • FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, OS/2, OpenBSD, Windows.
  • GPG-lite via Rosetta.
  • Infinite listeners and neighbors.
  • Integrated file encryption of directories and files.
  • Mac and Windows install targets: make install!
  • Messaging.
  • Multitasking kernel.
  • Natively compiled on Alpha, ARM, PowerPC, Sparc64, X86, X86_64.
  • Optional SSL/TLS.
  • Poptastic, or, communications through e-mail. IMAP, POP3, SMTP.
  • Portable.
  • PowerPC.
  • Private applications. Stream through Spot-On.
  • Private group communications.
  • Quantum-Computing Secure McEliece Algorithm
  • RSS feeder.
  • Raspberry Pi.
  • Record e-mail of offline destinations.
  • Remote accounts.
  • Rosetta stationery.
  • Search engine via PostgreSQL and SQLite.
  • Simple software firewall.
  • Socialist Millionaires Protocol.
  • Sparc.
  • Themes.
  • Threefish CBC.
  • UDP multicast, unicast.
  • Ultra StarBeam file sharing.
  • WebSockets.
  • Windows portable.

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BSD License

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Android, BSD, FreeBSD, Linksys WRT54G series, Linux, Mac, Maemo, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Tizen, Windows

Languages

Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, German, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop, Science/Research, Security, Security Professionals

User Interface

Qt

Programming Language

C++

Database Environment

PostgreSQL (pgsql), SQLite

Related Categories

C++ Chat Software, C++ Email Clients, C++ Cryptography Software, C++ Messaging Platform, C++ Raspberry Pi Software

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2013-05-23