What's new in GoldBug 2.9
Jan 31, 2016
- A beautiful RSS reader included
New in GoldBug 2.1 (Apr 21, 2015)
- Main UI Changes:
- Virtual keyboard for sensitive fields added. Please double-click to activate (e.g. Login tab or SMP-Funktion in the chat pop-up window). All authentication fields support the keyboards. The SMP mechanism does as well. English and German layouts currently provided.
- Display received StarBeam File Sharing information in participant windows.
New in GoldBug 1.7 (Dec 8, 2014)
- The Instant Messenger GoldBug.sf.net has released a new, worldwide innovative Function as "Santa-Claus & Xmas" - Release in Version 1.7: Encrypted Chat - and of course as well encrypted E-Mail - over POP3 (and IMAP).
- The encrypted chat - and of course encrypted e-mail - utilizing POP3 (or IMAP) can be described as follows: With the Poptastic function now all e-mail accounts, for example, from Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook.com - can mail and chat encrypted with GOLDBUG Mesenger: asymmetrically end-to-end - and hybrid complementary symmetrical - it is encrypted. The clou: Each POP3 or IMAP server can also be used for encrypted chat.
- So why using a dedicated chat server or secure chat transfers with plugins for encryption, when you can just use your e-mail address for the chat and also e-mail? The 30-year-old POP3 protocol and thousands of email servers can now be used for encrypted chat with this app. The e-mail server is simply converted as a chat server.
- For this usage the messages of the chat will be converted into an encrypted e-mail sent via POP3 or IMAP, and the receiver is converted back into a chat message. As the GOLDBUG Messenger is also an e-mail client, the encrypted message exchange also works via e-mail. The program automatically detects whether it is an e-mail a chat message via POP3.
New in GoldBug 0.9.2923 (Apr 23, 2014)
- Updated OpenSSL library to latest. GB had no heartbleed, as the lib was already the latest and not affected.
- Improved, more simplified Gui, which is default at startup.
- Added e-mail C/O institutions: Institutions will now be able to house 3rd-party e-mail without needing to distribute their public keys. (Please remove your old email.db.) With enabling C/O service you create a post office for your friends. Two methods exist: Define a common neighbor (e.g Alice and Bob connect to a common webserver as node, and all three have email keys shared), then the webserver stores the emails, even if Alice or Bob are offline.
- Second: Create an Institution and add the email key of a friend to your node. In case your friend adds the magnet link for the institution as well to his node, the institution will save all emails for him (as well from senders, which are not registered at the virtual institution). A Magnet Link allows to share the Institution easily.
- SCTP implementation and support for Windows.
- Public keys of other participants will now be encrypted. Please remove friends_public_keys.db.
- Corrected a Bug in Rosetta CryptoPad Decryption.
New in GoldBug 0.9.2800 (Mar 14, 2014)
- Added the StarBeam Analyzer to the tools menu for discovering missing chunks in the FileSharing function.
- Ability to change friends names permanently in Chat and E-Mail tabs.
- Corrected an error with Rosetta text: Newline characters are now not lost just because of toPlainText usage.
- Upgraded Qt products to version 5.2.1 on Windows..
New in GoldBug 0.9.2635 (Feb 10, 2014)
- Launch of the public project server for test purposes: DNS: tulip.cloud.tilaa.com
- Massive Kernel and further improvements.
- Use a separate key for computing local keyed hashes: Generating now more than 8 Keys.
- Ability to copy e-mail key pairs of friends.
- Import and export of Keys (tools menu).
- Added menu buttons for to be build tablet modi.
- Pop-up Chat Windows malfunctioning has been corrected: Sound available.
- Introduced authentication timers (15 seconds) to secure D/H exchanges.
- Upgraded to Qt 5.2.0 and OpenSSL 1.0.1f on Windows.
New in GoldBug 0.7.2388 (Dec 20, 2013)
- Added FileSharing: Introduced the StarBeam Transfer Protocol. Magnet Links are related to Crypto-Channels in the network, and are not related to files. One-Time-Magnets ("OTM' s") are a Crypto-Channel to one dedicated file-transfer. Magnets of StarBeam are linkable on any homepage, as they are not associated to a file. The "Rewind" function starts the seed again. Seeders within these kind of "Crypto-Torrent"-like Magnets as trackers keep anonymous. Chunks are Encrypted. Keep Magnets private or use Accounts for Neighbours you trust or provide the file-rar/zip-encryption key after the Transmit.
- e*IRC: Added hash keys and types to Buzz channels.
- Transport: Added UDP transport as Option next to regular TCP transport.
- GoldBug now deploys 6 RSA keys for Scrambler with faked Impersonator chat Messages (install fresh; in case you upgrade: please delete ./spoton path and generate a new profile).
- Added support for TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2, where available.
- Introduced sequence numbers and UTC times to chat protocol (in regard of UDP commmunications).
- Gui Improvements.
New in GoldBug 0.6.2088 (Oct 25, 2013)
- Introduction of ElGamal encryption key pairs (as alternative to RSA-Keys).
- Signature key pairs are extended to a choice of: DSA and RSA.
- Added Accounts for chat-servers/neighbors-connections: Create a dedicated connection on your EMPP-Chat-Server for friends only with a password.
- Added pop-up windows per 1:1-friend-chat (doubleclick on a friend to open it).
- Allow neighbors to be defined such that (non-ssl)-plaintext connections are prohibited (HTTPS-Only-Connections, Default: enabled - For that reason, please remove neighbors.db. in case you overtake your ".spoton"-datapath).
- Introduced threaded peers: Go parallel with your processes!
- Added Magnet-Uri Scheme for e*IRC/Buzz-Chat Channels as kind of Booksmarks for your echoed IRC-like-Chatrooms!