Katzen Metadata Minimizing Messsenger
Privacy preserving instant messaging using a modern mixnet
Katzen is a multi-platform messenger application that works with Katzenpost, a mix network framework for building anonymity-enhancing communication services. Katzen minimizes metadata that could potentially be used to reveal the identities, locations, and relationships of its users. Katzen currently supports one-to-one messages between paired users, while also not revealing who is speaking to whom.
This project aims to improve Katzen by adding group messaging, multimedia file transfers, and voice chat. These features require a new encrypted-at-rest database, additional UI for file transfers and push-to-talk voice messaging, and implementation of group messaging using the multiparty REUNION protocol, which allows group members to discover each other using a shared passphrase.
- The project's own website: https://katzen.chat
Run by Katzenpost Project
This project was funded through the NGI0 Entrust Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101069594.
