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Re: an alternative email system with built-in remailer

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In article <480b8cf1-16df-4630-85ca-
dc789f21a6e4@googlegroups.com>
Simon Schmidt <simon3.schmidt3@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I began to create a new E-Mail System, called "Anonymized Mail" (or in
> short A-Mail). A-Mail will be set of Protocols for a seperate E-Mail-Like
> Mail System with Privacy in mind. It is a bit similar to that, what the
> Dark Mail project makes, but simpler, and seperate, not complement, to
> the E-Mail standard. That means, that you can't send a A-Mail to an
> E-Mail-Address, nor an E-Mail to an A-Mail-Address (Unless you're using
> Gateways).
>
> A-Mail will have remailer-functions built into the core, and by design
> every AMail inbox server will be a AMail remailer at the same time. A Key-
> Rotation feature is planned. A-Mail will encrypt the entire message
> including the header, not just the body.
>
> Unlike E-Mail, A-Mail will not depend on MX-record in the DNS-System,
> wich will make the deployment easier. Instead, every inbox server will
> serve a "Service Information Protocol" on port 64000, wich offers the
> choosen port-numbers a potential sender needs to know. By the way: the
> S.I.P. is not limited to the use for A-Mail configuration.
>
> A-Mail-Adresses will have notation different to E-Mail-Adresses.
>
> Consider a E-Mail-Adress is called:
> john.doe@undead.de
>
> The A-Mail-Adress would look like this:
> john.doe#whatever.undead.de
>
>
>
> What have i already done?
>
> I've made a draft for Protocols:
> - a MX-record replacement: The S.I.P. Protocol
> - a SMTP-Equivalent: The PUSH-Protocol
> - a POP3-Equivalent: The PULL-Protocol
> - a Encryption Protocol: VSEP
>       (based on Curve25519 and AES in ECFB+CTR-Mode)
> - The Key-Poker-Protocol: A Protocol that is derived from the
>       "Methal-Poker" do offer a bulk of Public-Key/Hostname Pairs without
>       enabling spies on the server to guess, wich keys i really received.
> - The Key-Offer-Protocol: A Protocol for Inbox servers to propagate
>       their public keys to a Key-Poker-Protocol Server
>
> I've also made Encryption schemes and formats:
> - Encrypted Cipher Feedback (ECFB) Mode, wich aims to combine the CFB-Mode
>       with another Stream-Cipher (Practically used with CTR-Mode).
> - Seccon: A Public-Key-Encryption based on
>       Curve25519 and AES in ECFB+CTR-Mode
> - Mail Relay Message Format: The format of the blobs transfered by the
>       PUSH Protocol.
>
> I've made reference implementations for the VSEP encryption protocol and
> the PUSH protocol
>
>
>
> What haven't i done yet?
>
> A-Mail still needs more accurate specifications for the S.I.P. Datasets.
> It also needs a Protocol for querying public key and mailbox name for a
> specific a-mail adress.
>
> There are no reference implementations for the PUSH and the PULL protocol.
> There are also no reference implementations for S.I.P. and Seccon.
>
>
>
> Why i do Write this usenet article
>
> I hope to reach people with the same vision that i have. I'm willing to
> give access to my prior work on A-Mail to people who also want to
> develope something like this. I hope, these pieces that i created reach
> people if they are useful.
>
> Since the Dark Mail aliance has yet neigther released sourcecode nor
> information about the progress of their project, i feel that it rests on
> my shoulders to get these things done.
>
>
>
> How you can contribute
>
> I am asking individuals for
> - donations of maintainance
> - donations of missing protocols
> - reference implementations
>
> I created a github-group and ask for people to join
> https://github.com/a-mail-group/
>
> And here is the website
> http://a-mail-group.github.io/anonym-mail/

This is very ambitious and in the world of today, necessary.

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