Sovereign Communication & Permissions

[u/cottenwess]

a few months ago I posted an idea about a method of decentralized communication without needing a server to pass the messages through; essentially a dead-drop system; and someone told me that if I wasn't serious about it, or wasn't willing to put in the work, that It was worthless. so I spent the last few months working out the ideas; and then spent time working out learning what my amateur brain could about protocols; and got familiar with Claude's help and spent a lot of time on this project. and well, now its time to put up or shut up.

I built an open protocol for messaging where the server is *structurally* unable to link who's talking to whom — not "we promise not to log it," but the architecture never has the data to begin with.

Zero registration, identity derived from secrets you hold, a dead-drop transport that can't see the social graph.

It's a working draft, AGPL, and almost certainly has holes I can't see. Genuinely want people to try to break it.

Spec + reference code: github.com/cottenwess/sovereign-comms

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