[liberationtech] Trsst: An Open and Secure Alternative to Twitter

[Ben Laurie]

On 18 August 2013 17:49, Michael Powers <michael at mpowers.net> wrote:

> Yep, the bitcoin stuff seems to be a distraction for whatever reason.
>
> The only connection with bitcoin is that each blog gets a keypair and the
> public key is also the guid.  Now if the keypair generation happens to
> adheres to bitcoin's scheme, then your blog id happens to be a payment
> address too, which could be useful for micropayment content monetization.
>
> I've had some people ask me if this is going to make them wanted by the
> feds (or the Fed for that matter) so I'm considering just taking the whole
> thing out.  But there it is.
>
> The "blog chain" is merely bitcoin-inspired.  Each entry contains the
> message digest of the previous entry, hence the "blog chain" ala block
> chain, so you can prove against censored messages or tampering.
>
> All we're doing is extending RSS to support self-signed and/or
> self-encrypted entries.  Your public posts remain public and
> search-indexable but the private posts you encrypt with the recipient's
> public key (aka their blog id and -ahem- payment address) so that it shows
> up in your rss feed as encoded text.  Existing RSS reader can read your
> feed; you can follow any existing RSS feed.
>
> (I've been reading the client-side/javscript encryption stuff here with
> interest.)
>
> White paper is here: http://trsst.com
>
> If it's not clear by now, I'm the project founder.
>
> Happy to answer any other questions and generally would love feedback.
>

Merkle trees (a la Certificate Transparency) are more efficient than
chains. Also, if you did that, you could have a global log, and so prove
against censorship of an entire blog.


> Thanks.
>
> -----
>
> > I came across this project in kickstarter. Subscribers of this list may
> > find it interesting. (Btw I am not associated with them)
> >
> They lost me at bitcoin. Why???
>
> > --
> >
> > *Welcome to Trsst: An Open and Secure Alternative to Twitter*
> >
> > Post your thoughts, share links, and follow other interesting people or
> > web sites, using the web or your mobile or any software of your choice.
> >
> >    - All of your private posts to individuals or friends and family are
> >    securely encrypted so that even your hosting provider - or government
> -
> >    can't unlock them.
> >    - All of your public posts are digitally signed so you can prove that
> >    no one - and no government - modified or censored your writings.
> >    - You control your identity and your posts and can move them to
> >    another site or hosting provider at any time.
> >
> > Think of Trsst as an RSS reader (and writer) that works like Twitter but
> > built for the open web.  The public stuff stays public and
> > search-indexable, and the private stuff is encrypted and secured.  Only
> you
> > will hold your keys, so your hosting provider can't sell you out.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-o/description
> >
>
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