Ubikom: decentralized encrypted 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.

The code is here: github.com/regnull/ubikom

Hope it may be of interest to this community

[ph00lt0]

Related: privacyguides/privacyguides.org#630

[demchog]

Hi there,

I was checking out the recommendations for secure email on privacy guides. The first requirement is that the service operates outside of the USA or other Five Eyes countries. I'm wondering how this requirement would apply to Ubikom, which is a decentralized email service. To send an email, the sender requests information from the blockchain, which does not have a defined jurisdiction. Only encrypted emails are circulating inside the system. So, it appears that this recommendation does not apply to Ubikom. One caveat: if using webmail, the server resides on AWS. It is possible, of course, to request the AWS server located outside of the USA. What do you think?

[ghost]

Honestly I think the whole "Five Eyes" thing should just go away. There's too many edge cases like you said and it doesn't really matter what country it's based in anyway.

[ph00lt0]

Yeah that requirement doesn't make any sense. It's obscurity and it doesn't consider other countries that have allied/joined the alliance.

[dngray]

Duplicate https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/639