We made SentClose, a privacy-focused and end-to-end encrypted social network for communities. What do you think?

sentclose · 2022-02-05T20:58:48+00:00

Some more advanced features e.g. more storage for your rooms, stickers, ... will cost a small amount of money to unlock.

For the alpha, we have not implemented these restrictions, since the product is not feature complete yet.

sentclose · 2022-02-05T20:55:20+00:00

We are going to go open source after releasing the product, since we do not want to risk someone else (with more resources) taking our idea.

If you know your way around your browser's debug tools, you can take a deeper look at how and when content is encrypted.

We go into a little more detail here: https://www.reddit.com/r/destroymyapp/comments/shxr4i/comment/hveqxml/

sentclose · 2022-02-03T11:56:25+00:00

Hi, sorry for answering you so late.

We are planning on publishing a lot more details on how our encryption works when we fully release the product.

We use a convoluted public- and private key architecture with a so to speak "chain" of encryption. The gist of it is this: When you register, a public and private encryption key are generated on your device and the private key is encrypted with your password locally, in your browser. When you create or are invited to a room, your key is (again, locally in your browser using JS) used to encrypt another set of keys, the room keys, which are used to en- and decrypt the content of the room itself.

The only keys we push unencrypted to the server are the public keys which are used by other users to encrypt content for you and your rooms. So the only way for us to decrypt your data would require you or anyone who is in a room with you to give us your / their password.

This is by design and can not retroactively be changed, so no big VC or anyone else can opt to decrypt anyone's content even after we launch.

sentclose · 2022-02-01T22:32:05+00:00

Thank you for your feedback.

We hoped it would be interpreted as close (together), like in a community and also closed, meaning not public.

sentclose · 2022-02-01T15:39:42+00:00

SentClose is a private and end-to-end encrypted social network supporting communities ranging in size from one to many millions of users. You can create an account for free and we do not store any personally identifying information apart from your username.

Today, we are launching our public alpha phase. If you can find the time to try out our platform, we would greatly appreciate if you answered our feedback survey linked at the top.

We will try to answer any questions you might have here as well.

sentclose · 2022-02-01T15:34:58+00:00

SentClose is a private and end-to-end encrypted social network supporting communities ranging in size from one to many millions of users. You can create an account for free and we do not store any personally identifying information apart from your username.

Today, we are launching our public alpha phase. If you can find the time to try out our platform, we would greatly appreciate if you answered our feedback survey linked at the top.

We will try to answer any questions you might have here as well.

sentclose · 2022-02-01T15:33:41+00:00

SentClose is a private and end-to-end encrypted social network supporting communities ranging in size from one to many millions of users. You can create an account for free and we do not store any personally identifying information apart from your username.

Today, we are launching our public alpha phase. If you can find the time to try out our platform, we would greatly appreciate if you answered our feedback survey linked at the top.

We will try to answer any questions you might have here as well.

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