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ANNOUNCING Bitmask, the internet encryption toolkit, release 0.3.4
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
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 0.3.4 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
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,
Oct 4, 2013
Somewhere in the middle of the intertubes.
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