ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.2

The LEAP team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
version 0.3.2 of Bitmask, the Internet Encryption Toolkit.

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 0.3.2 is mostly a bugfix release, with some minor improvements. Mail
service is a bit more polished, and we are slowly making our potential packagers
happy. Refer to the CHANGELOG for the funny details.

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.

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
"COPYING.GPL" 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 06, 2013
Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes.