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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.
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
OpenVPN, so use accordingly. You can refer to the CHANGELOG for the
meat.
Encrypted Internet on Linux now avoids 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 want to make 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.
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.
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.
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