meskio
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Comment · 12 years ago
This is not worst than the key infrastructure right now, that not only reveals all the email address but their relationships.
Comment · 12 years ago
The key distribution is the actual problem that bitmask try to address (https://leap.se/en/docs/tech/hard-problems), it tries to make transparent the key discovery but keeping it as secure as possible. But this is still a work in progress.
Comment · 12 years ago
Bitmask actually uses OpenVPN, just makes easy to use it securely. One summer of code has implemented support for obfsproxy (https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en), that hopefully will solve the problem in places like China.
Bitmask doesn't want to provide a proper VPN service, for the moment there is a demo service to try it. But the idea is to provide all the software easy to set up for providers, and the providers will charge you for it to sustain themselves. The nice thing of this model is that the provider only provides the service but your client comes from an independent organization, your provider can not put back doors on it.
The trust is a hard problem, we are moving the trust from the ISP to your provider (https://leap.se/en/doc/platform). Your ISP is something that you can not choose much, but on the provider you can choose or set up your own (https://leap.se/en/doc/platform).
Comment · 12 years ago
Other platform support on working, but this is just a beta.
OpenVPN is hard to use by non-hackers and complicated to configure well, too easy to have DNS or IPv6 leaks. Bitmask makes all that easy.