Sunsetting Tor Messenger

Re:Sunsetting Tor Messenger by derefr on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:15PM (#16746170)

I believe there is a Usenet newsgroup, somewhere under alt.binaries, that's effectively a numbers station: it's just GPG-encrypted (but not signed) blobs with no titles. Anyone can post, anyone can listen, everyone has to download everything to figure out which things they can personally decrypt.

Sadly, googling related keywords doesn't seem to pull up the name of the newsgroup. I believe I read about it during a discussion on a Tor onion-site forum, on "why people keep getting caught doing illegal things on Tor, and what real OPSEC looks like."

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Re:Sunsetting Tor Messenger by kstrauser on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:45PM (#16746504)

I think you're thinking of Mixmaster: http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml

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Re:Sunsetting Tor Messenger by schoen on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:07PM (#16746771)

More likely alt.anonymous.messages, as a Usenet newsgroup.

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Re:Sunsetting Tor Messenger by schoen on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @01:07PM (#16746765)

Historically the newsgroup meant for this purpose was alt.anonymous.messages. I'm not sure how much use it sees nowadays.

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Re:Sunsetting Tor Messenger by cgb223 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:35PM (#16746389)

If someone could find a link to this that would be incredible

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