This project tries to allow email over a decentralized p2p network. In the network users will not only save information that is/was of use for them, but they will also save information of others to enable the ability to send offline users emails, too.
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added a bootstrap-server build without a gui, so thin version can run on a server with static IP, so nodes can bootstrap from it - just need to find a server now...
added a bootstrap-server build without a gui, so thin version can run on a server with static IP, so nodes can bootstrap from it - just need to find a server now...
p2pMail is a peer to peer based mail client, which requires no central server to send mails and uses encryption by default. Most importantly you can send mails too, even if the receiver is offline. p2pMail comes with a simple Gui and has finally reached a status where it has become useful. You can register a name for your account (but you don't need to, because your identified by a 256bit hash of your public key). If you have registered a name, others in the network can find your ID with that name. If you send a message to an ID and a public key for that ID is found, your message is automatically encrypted, else it will just get signed. A basic implementation of an address book exists. There aren't supposed to be any big changes in the communication protocol to later versions, so this version should stay compatible. If you have a server which can be used to bootstrap users (which will be important at the beginning) or other ideas for improvement, please post in one of the project forums https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=222470 or in the discussion part of this news entry. If you find bugs, please post in the bug tracker.
added a bootstrap-server build without a gui, so thin version can run on a server with static IP, so nodes can bootstrap from it - just need to find a server now...
added a bootstrap-server build without a gui, so thin version can run on a server with static IP, so nodes can bootstrap from it - just need to find a server now...
These features are currently implemented: - encryption of mails - signatures of mails - serverless communication via UDP - UDP hole punching (to enable parts of the p2p-net to be completely NAT-hidden) - not yet tested very well - a simple gui with an addressbook and a list of received mails - a gui-utility to traverse the p2p-network - DHT for names (so you don't initially have to enter the 64 char-long ID, if you want to send a mail to someone) Here's a TODO list, what features will be implemented next (which hopefully will improve the useability) - Saving of a session (currently everything is ram-stored - and everything will be lost, if you restart)
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