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[–]Sackboii 5 points6 points ago

Email is inherently insecure. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend using email technology with security/anonymity in mind.

Two rather nice alternatives exist, though: BitMessage and TorChat. Bitmessage is a decentralized, P2P, private (though not anonymous see /u/dokumentamarble's comment) communications protocol that somewhat resembles email. It's good because it actually hides one thing that emails tend to spill a lot of: metadata. TorChat, on the other hand, is exactly as the name suggests. It's a chat protocol in which your communications are forwarded through Tor. It uses end-to-end encryption and is anonymous, so it's considered fairly secure.

[–]dokumentamarble 0 points1 point ago

Jw. What makes you say that bitmessage is not anonymous?

[–]Sackboii 0 points1 point ago

As far as I know, it isn't anonymous; it's based on the Bitcoin protocol, which is semi-anonymous. Your public IP isn't send alongside messages, and people won't know whether a message was either sent or relayed by you, but clients need to know your external IP in order to connect to you. It is advised that you use Tor while using Bitmessage.

Please, please correct me if I'm wrong, though; I've zero experience with Bitmessage.

[–]dokumentamarble 0 points1 point ago

While the current implementation isn't ideal, I believe the goal is to be anonymous. Currently the protocol can make the recipient fully anonymous (as far as which user on the network received the message goes).

Hiding the sender is a bit harder and is still under revision but for the most part it is much more anonymous than current email, instant messaging, etc. If run over Tor it should be at least the equivalent of torchat.

Clients don't need to know your ip because they don't have to connect to you, you can connect to them.

[–]Sackboii 0 points1 point ago

Thanks for clearing this up; I'll edit it into the original comment. :)