ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.7 The LEAP team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 0.3.8 of Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit, codename "Three week child". 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 0.3.8 improves greatly its mail support and stability in general, among other various bug fixes. 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, Dec 6, 2013 Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes. EOF