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-ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.3
+ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.4
-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".
+The LEAP team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+version 0.3.4 of Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit, codename
+"look at my new makeup".
https://downloads.leap.se/client/
-LEAP (LEAP Encryption Access Project) develops a plan to secure
+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
+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
+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
+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
+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
+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
+Bitmask 0.3.4 is a bugfix release but it also has a shiny new UI
+design, it's still a work in progress since it will change after
+testing in this release, but it's progressing nicely. We have better
+mail support, and we are using the new gnupg instead of python-gnupg
+for its security and better flexibility. 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
+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
+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.
+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.
+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
+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.
+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.
+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
+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
+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,
+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
+Oct 4, 2013
Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes.
EOF