ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit, release 0.6.1 The LEAP team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 0.6.1 of Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit, codename "knock knock knocking on beta's door". 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. WARNING (LINUX ONLY): If you ever run into the situation where you cannot access internet, open the terminal and run the following command: $ pkexec /usr/local/sbin/bitmask-root firewall stop If for some reason that doesn't work, you will need to reboot your computer. 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: https://leap.se/en/docs/client 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. WHAT CAN THIS VERSION OF BITMASK DO FOR ME? Bitmask 0.6.1 is the new stable version of the client after the big refactor, with a little face lift of the UI while we were at it. Encrypted Email is still not stable though, so don't use it for high security. Encrypted Internet is the first service we are calling stable, although its security level is just a bit higher than plain OpenSSL, so use accordingly. You can refer to the CHANGELOG for the meat. Encrypted Internet on Linux now helps you don't shoot yourself in the foot by leaking traffic outside of the secure connection it establishes. This will be added to other platforms in the future. 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, OSX and Windows, 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 are also provided for debian and ubuntu, add the leap repository to your apt sources: deb http://deb.leap.se/debian wheezy main 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 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, August 15, 2014 Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes. EOF