ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.3

The LEAP team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
version 0.3.3 of Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit, codename
"the calm after the tempest".

https://downloads.leap.se/client/

LEAP (LEAP Encryption Access Project) develops a plan to secure everyday
communication, breaking down into discrete services.

Bitmask is the desktop client to connect to the services offered by the
LEAP Platform. In the current phase the supported services are Encrypted
Internet Proxy and Encrypted Mail.

The Encrypted Internet Proxy provides circumvention, location
anonymization, and traffic encryption in a hassle-free, automatically
self-configuring fashion.

Encrypted Mail offers automatic encryption and decryption for both
outgoing and incoming email, adding public key cryptography to your mail
without you ever having to worry about key distribution or signature
verification.

You can read about this and many other cool things in the user manual
and the developer notes, which can be found online at:

http://bitmask.rtfd.org/

WARNING: This is still part of a beta release of our software, a lot of
testing and auditing is still needed, so indeed use it, and feed us back,
fork it and contribute to its development, but by any means DO NOT trust
your life to it (yet!).


WHAT CAN THIS VERSION OF BITMASK DO FOR ME?

Bitmask 0.3.3 is mostly a bugfix release, with some minor improvements.
On this release, we have fixed many UI bugs, and have undergone internal
reorganizations in the code. This release also bumps the requirement
for Soledad, the encrypted data syncronization engine behind Bitmask,
which has experienced a backward-incompatible change. You can refer to
the CHANGELOG for the meat.

As always, you can connect to the Encrypted Internet Proxy service offered
by a provider of your choice, and enjoy a encrypted internet connection
that the spying eyes can only track back to your provider.

The Encrypted Mail services will run local SMTP and IMAP proxies that,
once you configure the mail client of your choice, will automatically
encrypt and decrypt your email using GPG encryption under the hood.

If it is the first time you run Bitmask, the first run wizard will help
you registering an user with your selected provider, downloading all
the config files needed to connect to the various LEAP services.


LICENSE

You may use Bitmask under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or,
at your option, any later version. See the file "LICENSE" for the terms
of the GNU General Public License, version 3.

In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission
to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library
under certain conditions as described in each individual source file,
and distribute linked combinations including the two.


INSTALLATION

We distribute the current version of Bitmask as standalone bundles for
GNU/Linux and OSX, but it is likely that you are able to run it under
other systems, specially if you are skillful and patience is one of
your virtues.

Have a look at "docs/user/install.rst".

Packages will be soon provided for debian and ubuntu, and the release
of windows bundles will be resumed shortly.

We will love to hear if you are interested in help making packages
available for any other system.


BUGS

You can send the bugs our way by pointing your telnet session to port
443 on https://leap.se/code. We will do our best to make them follow
our intensive bug-reeducation program.


HACKING

You can find us in the #leap-dev channel on the freenode network.

If you are lucky enough, you can also spot us drinking mate, sleepless
in night trains, rooftops, rainforests, lonely islands and, always,
beyond any border.


The LEAP team,

Sep 20, 2013 Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes.