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Add the Nym mixnet and NymVPN #2570

Closed marcdbz closed 1 month ago

marcdbz commented 1 month ago

Proposal to add the Nym mixnet and NymVPN to this page

Disclosure: I work at Nym Technologies

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redoomed1 commented 1 month ago

Proposal to add

Any proposal to add a tool to the site belongs on the official forum, not here. You can go on the forum and start a discussion about it to request it to be added.

freddy-m commented 1 month ago

I see no reason for this PR to be open until a proper discussion has been had on our forum...

dngray commented 1 month ago

We wouldn't even be reviewing this at this time anyway as the website clearly says it's a "private alpha".

I'm not particularly pleased with the naming either as it seems it's ambiguous to be confused with:

A pseudonymous remailer or nym server, as opposed to an anonymous remailer, is an Internet software program designed to allow people to write pseudonymous messages on Usenet newsgroups and send pseudonymous email.

A nym server (short for "pseudonym server") is a server that provides an untraceable e-mail address, such that neither the nym server operator nor the operators of the remailers involved can discover which nym corresponds to which real identity.

To set up a nym, one creates a PGP keypair and submits it to the nym server, along with instructions (called a reply block) to anonymous remailers (such as Cypherpunk or Mixmaster) on how to send a message to one's real address. The nym server returns a confirmation through this reply block. One then sends a message to the address in the confirmation.

This seems to be some kind of decentralized VPN based on cryptocurrency and nothing to do with mixmaster/nym mailers.

marcdbz commented 1 month ago

Thanks for the heads up, let me prepare something to share with the forum members.