For those who may be curious, I was recently sent some information on the history of CSpace. The info has been included in the README: https://github.com/jmcvetta/cspace#history
Please note I have no insight into the accuracy of this history. It was provided unsolicited by a person I've never met. On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Seth <l...@sysfu.com> wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 16:51:44 -0800, Seth <l...@sysfu.com> wrote: > >> "Things become "catastrophic" for the NSA at level five - when, for >> example, a subject uses a combination of Tor, another anonymization >> service, the instant messaging system CSpace and a system for Internet >> telephony (voice over IP) called ZRTP. This type of combination results in >> a "near-total loss/lack of insight to target communications, presence," the >> NSA document states. >> > > John Gilmore dug up the Cspace software (see below), and I believe this is > the Trilight software/service mentioned in the NSA docs: > https://www.trilightzone.org/ > > Return-Path: <gnu[at]new.toad.com> > Received: from new.toad.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) > by new.toad.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id sBV5oaCl013715; > Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:50:36 -0800 > Message-Id: <201412310550.sBV5oaCl013715[at]new.toad.com> > To: cryptography[at]metzdowd.com, gnu[at]toad.com > Subject: "Catastrophic" for NSA: Tor+ Trilight Zone + Cspace + ZRTP on > Linux > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 21:50:36 -0800 > From: John Gilmore <gnu[at]new.toad.com> > > Nice to hear that there's some software that makes NSA go deaf, dumb > and blind. Here is the Snowden release that mentions it (page 20): > > "Presentation from the SIGDEV Conference 2012 explaining which > encryption protocols and techniques can be attacked and which not" > http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35535.pdf > > I found cspace (http://cspace.aabdalla.com/), which was a bit obscure > and hasn't seen any maintenance since 2009 or so. Its dependency > ncrypt-0.6.4's source code is at Pypi and ncrypt-0.6.4 is in current > Ubuntu distros. > > But I haven't yet found Trilight Zone. Any clues? > > And I haven't found a reliable, usable, simple, free software VoIP > client for Linux, let alone one that uses ZRTP. Though I admit I gave > up on looking about a year ago when I couldn't get anything to > actually work. > > John >
