Help wanted - review an open source messaging project claiming security

[librarygeek]

So, this looks interesting, and peer to peer, but I can't read code well enough to see if this is secure, and possible in case of emergency collapse with power for a while or some locations.

https://github.com/kristoffer-paulsson/angelos

Comments

[mdlbear]

I'm not enough of a pythonista to be able to make much sense of it. I have not, for example, been able to find the part that actually handles messages. Angelos is a server; the client is kristoffer-paulsson/logo. Neither appears to be very far along in development, and there's no documentation whatsoever.
Also, there's only one developer and it seems like a very new project.

[librarygeek]

Thank you for that much. I saw this related with a Kickstarter campaign for "threatened Christians" and I didn't like the tone of the project even. Got my Jewish, librarian, hackles up at it.

But I do think that Underground Railroad ideas may be useful for minority groups.

[mdlbear]

Useful context; thanks! Yeah, the Christian references scattered throughout the project seemed, well, odd.

For secure messaging, see Telegram Messenger, Signal. which is what my household uses; has the disadvantage that it's tied to your smart phone), and Tor Project | Anonymity Online. Maybe GPG (The GNU Privacy Guard) and OpenSSL.

Also see underground_rail, which has seen a little use but thankfully not much.