Trsst: a distributed secure blog platform for the open web
▻http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1904431672/trsst-a-distributed-secure-blog-platform-for-the-o#
Looks and feels like Twitter but built for the open web: encrypted and anonymized and decentralized; and only you hold the keys.
From a technical perspective:
• Each user’s client generates a keystore with a keypair for each account. Each account maps to a blog. The account’s public key is the unique identifier.
• The account keypair is also a bitcoin address, making each trsst client effectively a bitcoin wallet, whether the user realizes it or utilizes it or not.
• A user posts entries to an account either publicly or privately. Public posts are signed with your private key; private posts are encrypted with the recipient’s public key.
• Each post contains the message digest of the previous post so you can verify that no posts are modified or missing. We call this the blogchain.
• You publish your posts by pushing them to one or more servers that are participating in the syndication network. Servers serve up portions of your blogchain as an RSS feed.
• Following means subscribing to an account’s RSS feed using their public key as an identifier. This is how you see private messages meant for you.
• Any server in the syndication network can serve the feed to you, fetching it from cache or from other servers in order to route around network congestion or firewalls and blacklists.
The obvious risk is that this ends up as vaporware.
cc @stephane