![]() Strong anonymity model for passing messagesįully Decentralised means that there is no special node in the network that handles administration or routing.Hash-based addressing system (usernames).Fully decentralised peer-to-peer network.The white paper was the starting point of researching this scheme, but the scheme’s wiki, GitHub page notes and source code were also consulted. At the time of writing (in 2015) the most stable build is version 0.4.4 (released October 2014) and can be found on GitHub . The project, loosely inspired by Bitcoin, was released in November 2012 by software developer Jonathan Warren and is open source under the MIT license. ![]() The main aim of the software was to increase a user’s privacy beyond what is offered by email and PGP, but also to be easier to use. This scheme provides a strong theoretical basis for providing anonymous communication as will be explored in this chapter. ![]() (Note: this text was first written in 2015 and has not been updated to reflect any possible changes in BitMessage) 4.1 – Introduction and overview Weaknesses will also be addressed before a conclusion is drawn. This chapter will review the following aspects of BitMessage: In this chapter BitMessage will be discussed in enough detail such that its methods for providing anonymous communication can be understood, both theoretically and in practise. It has been picked as potentially the strongest candidate for ensuring anonymity in communication, and in theory could achieve all five levels of anonymity (as outlined in section 2.1.4) and that it uses many of the ideas identified in section 3.2 to ensure anonymity of communicants and robustness of the network. One of the most promising schemes for facilitating anonymous communication is BitMessage.
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