teckel: Anonymous Messaging
teckel provides a simple, non-cloud based, military-grade text messaging service called “teckel talk”, which requires only an Ethereum address for authentication, making teckel talk the most annonymous, secure, and private messaging app in the world.
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:
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Messages are encrypted in transit via SSL.
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Private chats between two participants are automatically end-to-end encrypted using the Diffie-Hellman algorithm.
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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.)
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“Walkie talkie” mode facilitates: 1) controllable and anonymous notifications when designated users enter the general chat-room or any private group chat-room, where the users have elected to broadcast their presence, and 2) incognito mode where any user can elect not to broadcast their presence.
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Private ANONYMOUS chats with ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek or Claude, or multi-way chats with multiple LLMs simultaneously, setting both the number of allowed AI-AI responses (“CrossTalk”) and the number of LLMs to only listen (“CrossListen”) on the fly before prompted to respond. (Not end-to-end encrypted since content needs to be accessible to the LLM servers. See example transcripts.)
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Chats can be shared or archived off of the App via PDF file.
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Chat sessions are completely ephemeral—no data is stored on the device or on any servers.
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All content can be personally moderated and any Ethereum address can be blocked.
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teckel does not require a phone number or email address.
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teckel does not capture “know-your-customer” (KYC) information.
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teckel does not record IP addresses.
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teckel does not limit the creation or importation of Ethereum addresses.
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teckel does not utilize cloud infrastructure.
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