Mute
Mute is a privacy enhancing communication system.
Features
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End-to-end encryption.
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Communication with forward secrecy (keys required to decrypt past messages are
frequently replaced and destroyed).
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Establish forward secret communication with first message (no synchronous two-way handshake).
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Asynchronous communication between peers.
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Authenticity of the identity-key relationship is established and preserved.
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Human-readable/human-memorizable identities.
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Communication with established standards where possible (e.g., using SMTP as the transport protocol).
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Sending messages and changing the state of one's own identity requires payment
by the user to both finance the system and to limit SPAM.
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Better-than-nothing anonymity: mixing/delaying of messages to prevent simple discovery of sender-recipient relationship by third party passive observer.
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Both sender and recipient anonymity.
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Plausible deniability of message content and some deniability of communication
relationship.
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