🆕 Software Suggestion | Ubikom: Decentralized E2EE email

[demchog]

Hi all,

Full disclaimer first: I'm one of the co-founders of Ubikom, so my opinion is a) informed; b) biased toward it.

Ubikom is a decentralized identity registry and email is its first application. These identities are avatars and are chosen by users.

All emails within the ubikom system are encrypted by default (with elliptic curve algorithm). It is fully compatible with legacy email services, but obviously, we need to decrypt emails before sending them outside of the perimeter. User names are recorded on a blockchain and thus cannot be banned, deleted, or blocked. Emails are end-to-end encrypted and no one can snoop on users.

Ubikom email works with standard mail clients such as iOS, Thunderbird, and BlueMail: you don't need to download and install yet another app. Email can also be accessed through a browser.

Ubikom is a work in progress as we are adding features, but it is up and running and being actively used. It protects our privacy and security of communication, is free to sign up, and a few thousand avatars have already registered. You can get more information and get a name here: www.ubikom.cc.

Hope it may be of interest to this community

[ph00lt0]

It all seems very experimental, I think you should wait with your request for addition until the product is more finalized.

[demchog]

Issues are not meant to be used for additions. Please open a discussion instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/ recommended opening an issue before posting there. I can open a discussion instead.

[demchog]

It all seems very experimental, I think you should wait with your request for addition until the product is more finalized.

It's certainly a work in progress, but there are hundreds of users already, and it works on many standard mail clients and as webmail. Btw, the code is here: github.com/regnull/ubikom

[ph00lt0]

Issues are not meant to be used for additions. Please open a discussion instead.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/ recommended opening an issue before posting there. I can open a discussion instead.

Well if you go here: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/issues/new/choose It will redirect you to open a discussion if you choose the right category.

[ph00lt0]

It's certainly a work in progress, but there are hundreds of users already, and it works on many standard mail clients and as webmail. Btw, the code is here: github.com/regnull/ubikom

I personally don't think experimental software should be recommended towards people who try to protect information. I have many questions about your project but generally I would not recommend any software in this state to users trying to stay private. I am not sure exactly what the current requirements are for email, but given your project you probably want to have a look at this as well: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/24#discussioncomment-1744298

[freddy-m]

Ubikom is a work in progress

Seeing as we already recommend a few decent email providers, we should probably wait till the product is as near to complete as it can be. cc @privacyguides/team

[demchog]

Thanks for the comments. We were checking PrivacyGuide's recommendations, and the first one that comes up is about the location of the servers. Since ubikom is a decentralized email service, this requirement should not apply. Can you please take a look at this discussion?

[dngray]

Correct, we're moving away from jurisdiction in general, because it's not relevant to decentralized services, E2EE.

See privacyguides/privacyguides.org#937