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Tyr

True P2P Email on top of Yggdrasil Network for Android.

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  • Android
  • Windows
  • Linux
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Tyr information

  • Developed by

    JB-SelfCompany
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Alternatives

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

GitHub repository

  •  332 Stars
  •  17 Forks
  •  3 Open Issues
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What is Tyr?

🌐 What is Tyr? We're taught that email must go through servers. Why? Because the Internet was built around centralized infrastructure. Every email you send travels through multiple servers - your provider's server, maybe a few relay servers, and finally your recipient's provider's server. Each hop is a potential point of surveillance, censorship, or failure.

Even "encrypted" email solutions still rely on these centralized servers. They encrypt the message content but the metadata - who you're talking to, when, how often - is visible to anyone watching the servers.

But there is a network, called Yggdrasil, that gives everyone a free IPv6 and doesn't need a blessing from your ISP. We finally have this possibility to use true P2P email. And moreover, this network has strong encryption to protect all data that flows from one IP to another.

Tyr brings true peer-to-peer email to your Android device using these unusual conditions. Unlike traditional email clients, Tyr doesn't need:

? Centralized mail servers (the connections are straight P2P) ? Message encryption layers (the network takes care of that) ? Port forwarding or STUN/TURN servers (Yggdrasil handles NAT traversal)