66
PeerBox, the first fully P2P secure email system (novafuture.org)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

NovaFuture is proud to announce the official release of PeerBox! A 100% P2P messaging system for Linux, fully open source. Runs on SSH over Tor for maximum security. No account required, no spam possible. Please share the word.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I think there's a lot of confusion surrounding this app, so I'm going to make some assumptions and please correct me if I'm wrong.

  1. This isn't an email app at all, but it's a messaging app that uses the email paradigm to display how messages are received.
  2. "Deferred messages" simply wait in the app's Outbox folder until your contact comes online and then they will be delivered.

(It's interesting how Delta Chat is technically an email client that pretends to be a messaging app, but this is more of a messaging app that pretends to be email.)

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago

    Ha, fair point! You're not wrong. PeerBox uses the email paradigm because that's how most people think about asynchronous messaging, but under the hood it's fully P2P with no email protocol involved. And yes, deferred messages wait locally until your contact comes online, then get delivered automatically. Your Delta Chat comparison is pretty spot on actually, it's the mirror image.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent