BLEEP BitTorrent’s

BLEEP- BitTorrent’s most-secure messenger

BitTorrent is a well-known company which created uTorrent and BitTorrent and an amazing alternative for Dropbox, which is known as BitTorrent Sync. After creating so many successful applications, it has now opened a new secure messaging app known as Bleep which is up for beta testing.

There is no surprise that Bleep is based on BitTorrent technology and because of that it has no central servers involved. You won’t have to worry about your messages being stored, and that means it can not be accessed by big brother government agencies. Plus, no metadata is stored either.

This app uses secure encryption protocols such as ed25519, poly1305, curver25519, salsa20 and many others. The links between different nodes are also encrypted and there is central lookup; which means that users can only find each other through telphone numbers, email ID or user names.

When you sign up for the very first time, you will be asked to enter your email ID or telephone number. But, for those who want to remain anonymous they can choose the incognito mode.

Farid Fadaie, the product manager of BitTorrent explained in this blog post that Bleep was built as a consumer application which will allow users to talk freely with each other without having to worry that someone might be eavesdropping or have access to their conversation. He also said that these eavesdroppers can even be some of your nosey friends who want to listen to your private conversations.

Since BitTorrent has asked alpha testers not to post any reviews or screenshots online, we will report you (for now) that whether it works well or not.

There is however a major flaw in this application; Bleep is a closed source app and there is no indication given by BitTorrent related

to its change. This is a huge disappointment because even though BitTorrent has an excellent track record when it comes to privacy, but it is still asking users to depend on their word that the system is secure enough.

The concept of Bleep is very good, but because the code has not been released as an open source for independent developers to inspect, there are low chances of it being recommended by us.