CryptoNote is a very simple open source web application that lets users encrypt and share messages. If you'd like to see an example of the site running, go to https://cryptonote.me
Sometimes you need to send something to somebody and be sure that they're the only person reading the message. So I decided to make a simple, open source, encrypted messaging system that anybody can pull and deploy to Heroku in minutes. Don't trust me? That's cool, install your own. Don't trust your web host? That's cool, they'll never be able to read your messages.
Ensure that you have Postgres installed, preferably through the Heroku Postgres App as we use it in both production and development.
Then, open your terminal to the project folder and run:
rake db:setup
rake db:migrate
Run the following commands to get started:
heroku create
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate
And then run:
heroku open
In order to open the application.
I'm always open to pull requests, and there's a lot more that could be done with the site. In general, I will tend towards "track less", so I never want CryptoNote to have user accounts or anything like that. However, there are always cool things that can be done.
CryptoNote is released under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENCE for more information or see http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT.
For the client-side encryption, all of the heavy lifting is done by the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library. Part of the reason I make this project was to help spread the word about the simple, but extremely well made library that anybody can use. Thanks to the team who made it!