Awesome Stuff Goes Dark: Dark Mail And Dark Wallet
from the sometimes-it's-good-to-be-in-the-dark dept
This week we've got two projects for our awesome stuff post that have to do with some of the topics we've been discussing lately: secure email and Bitcoin.- Last week, we were the first to report that Ladar Levison was planning to release Lavabit's code as open source (including dark mail capabilities Levison is working on with Silent Circle) and to put up a Kickstarter campaign. That campaign is now live. It's worth pointing out that respected security guru Moxie Marlinspike wrote an interesting criticism of Lavabit, but also that Levison provided a detailed response.
- Moving on from dark mail, we've got Dark Wallet, an interesting IndieGoGo project to create a simple and easy-to-use, but secure, Bitcoin wallet. The folks behind it are hoping to build a series of useful Bitcoin tools down the road.
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I use the Bitcoin-Qt at the moment.
Source: DarkWallet-UnSystem
Hmmm...DarkWallet is not another Armor is intended to become a platform.
The interesting part is the decentralized identity and distributed reputation systems.
Text Hash(SHA512).
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open sourcing email
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This project is already a complete failure
They won't do that because it would GREATLY diminish the size of the potential user base. But that's exactly what they need to do in order to have a fighting chance of success.
Here is what will happen -- write it down, note the date, if you like.
It will be carefully designed. It will be (mostly) correctly implemented. It will subsequently (or perhaps, simultaneously) draw the attention of various intelligence agencies as well as the usual suspects: phishers, spammers, and so on. In short order, they will reprogram their botnets to exfiltrate data from it. It won't be long after that until they have those same botnets generate synthetic traffic, and of course not long after that until they're in a position to inject malware and conduct known-plaintext attacks against the crypto. Those who relied on this service will wake up one day to discover that they're fairly well screwed.
I hope I'm completely wrong about all of that. I strongly suspect I'm not.
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Poor naming
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