Bitmessage

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Template:Infobox software Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer, trustless communications protocol that can be used by one person to send encrypted messages to another person, or to multiple subscribers.

In June 2013, the software experienced a surge of new adoptions after news reports of email surveillance by the US National Security Agency.<ref name="busweek"/>

Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jonathan Warren, who based its design on the decentralized digital currency, bitcoin. The software was released in November 2012 under the MIT license.<ref name="busweek">Template:Cite news</ref>

Bitmessage gained a reputation for being out of reach of warrantless wiretapping conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA), due to the decentralized nature of the protocol, and its encryption being difficult to crack. As a result, downloads of the Bitmessage program increased fivefold during June 2013, after news broke of classified email surveillance activities conducted by the NSA.<ref name="busweek" />

Bitmessage has also been mentioned as an experimental alternative to email by Popular Science<ref name="popsci">Template:Cite news</ref> and CNET.<ref name="cnet">Template:Cite news</ref>

Some ransomware programs instruct affected users to use Bitmessage to communicate with the attackers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Further reading

• Bitmessage: A Peer‐to‐Peer Message Authentication and Delivery System (Jonathan Warren) - Bitmessage white paper

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