Twitter founder Jack Dorsey (Now x) and fintech companies blocks (SQ)a white paper has been published for Bitchat, a decentralized messaging protocol that allows for fully encrypted communications – without the internet.
Bitchat will operate via Bluetooth low energy (ble)according to White paper is published on Sunday.
When a message is sent, it will travel through nearby devices until the recipient reaches the recipient, making it resilient in an offline or censorship environment.
Messages are end-to-end encrypted using curve25519 and AES-GCM to ensure that only the intended recipients can read them. The protocol does not collect metadata, the user’s identity is obfuscated, and the messages by default disappear after delivery, unless the user explicitly saves them.
While not explicitly citing bitcoin, cryptocurrency or blockchain, Dorsey described bitchat as a “decentralized, peer-to-peer chaotic application”, evoking the Introduction to Bitcoin White Paper It is described as a “peer-to-peer version of electronic cash”.
Just as Bitcoin eliminates centralized intermediaries in finance, Bitchat can remove central authorities from digital communications.
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