teckel: Messaging

teckel provides a simple, highly secure, fully anonymous, text-based messaging service called “teckel talk”, which requires only an Ethereum address for authentication.

The best way to think of teckel talk is that it is your old-school untappable telephone landline on your mobile device, and the “chat-rooms” are old-school untappable telephone landline “party lines”.

The following combination of features is what sets teckel talk apart from the pack:

    • Messages are encrypted in transit via SSL.

    • Private chats between two participants are automatically end-to-end encrypted using the Diffie-Hellman algorithm.

    • Private chats of three or more participants are optionally end-to-end encrypted using pre-agreed ephemeral passwords (shared between users offline.) Additionally, subgroups of two or more participants within a group can each be individually end-to-end encrypted using unique ephemeral passwords (shared between subgroup users offline.)

    • Chat sessions are completely ephemeral—no data is stored on the device or on any servers.

    • teckel does not require a phone number or email address.

    • teckel does not capture “know-your-customer” (KYC) information.

    • teckel does not record IP addresses.

    • teckel does not limit the creation or importation of Ethereum addresses.

    • teckel does not utilize cloud infrastructure.

General messaging and messaging within a barter transaction is free. (Messaging within a barter transaction is not available in the teckel App Store Edition.) Private group messaging is available through the payment of teckel credits.

To purchase teckel credits (tc) (and view your balance), download the teckel App (to purchase using ETH) or the teckel App Store Edition (to purchase using fiat currencies) and navigate to your Ethereum Account in your teckel wallet within the App. (Each Ethereum Account has its own balance of tc.)

You will be rewarded fifty-thousand (50,000) teckel credits (tc) for each Ethereum Account that you create or import into the teckel App.