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”.
Yusuf Jafry & Steven Adler, co-founders of teckel, talk about why they created teckel AI and teckel talk, what those are, and how to use them:
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.)
-
Private chats with ChatGPT or Gemini, or private three-way chat with both, setting the number of allowed AI-AI chats on the fly before prompted to respond. (Not end-to-end encrypted since content needs to be accessible to OpenAI and Google servers. See example transcripts.)
-
Chats can be shared or archived off of the App via PDF file.
-
Chat sessions are completely ephemeral—no data is stored on the device or on any servers.
-
All content can be personally moderated and any Ethereum address can be blocked.
-
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.
-
