GoldBug is an Encrypted Communications Platform with Chat Messaging, Email Client, Web Search, and File Transfer
GoldBug is a decentralized and secure communication suite that offers an integrated email client, an instant messenger, and a file transfer feature. It also includes an URL-RSS-DB and a peer-to-peer web search.
The current version of GoldBug incorporates the McEliece Algorithm.
From 2013 to 2023, GoldBug has served as another graphical user interface of the Spot-On Encryption Suite, spanning ten years.
The GUI
The main graphical user interface features of GoldBug include a minimal and colorful interface with tabs located in the east.
For compiling, Microsoft and Qt MinGW have deprecated Win32.
Features
- Alpha processors.
- Authenticated and encrypted SQLite and PostgreSQL URL databases.
- BSD license.
- Bluetooth, SCTP, TCP, UDP.
- Configurable thread priorities.
- Custom URL rules.
- Custom socket options.
- DSA, ECDSA, EdDSA, ElGamal, McEliece, NTRU, RSA.
- DTLS.
- Debian packages.
- Distributed URL system.
- Distributed e-mail.
- E-mail (IMAP, POP, Spot-On).
- Echo public-key distribution system.
- End-to-End, not Hop-to-Hop encryption.
- FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, OS/2, OpenBSD, Windows.
- GPG-lite via Rosetta.
- Infinite listeners and neighbors.
- Integrated file encryption of directories and files.
- Mac and Windows install targets: make install!
- Messaging.
- Multitasking kernel.
- Natively compiled on Alpha, ARM, PowerPC, Sparc64, X86, X86_64.
- Optional SSL/TLS.
- Poptastic, or, communications through e-mail. IMAP, POP3, SMTP.
- Portable.
- PowerPC.
- Private applications. Stream through Spot-On.
- Private group communications.
- Quantum-Computing Secure McEliece Algorithm
- RSS feeder.
- Raspberry Pi.
- Record e-mail of offline destinations.
- Remote accounts.
- Rosetta stationery.
- Search engine via PostgreSQL and SQLite.
- Simple software firewall.
- Socialist Millionaires Protocol.
- Sparc.
- Themes.
- Threefish CBC.
- UDP multicast, unicast.
- Ultra StarBeam file sharing.
- WebSockets.
- Windows portable
Operating Systems
Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, BSD, Android, Maemo, Tizen, Linksys WRT54G series, macOS, and Windows
License
BSD License