Hello All,

As we hit the button for the first phase of marketing activities, FortKnoxster took off, with thousands of new users since last week. We have seen over a 350 % growth within the FortKnoxster v.0.9 platform & TG channel community.

We warmly welcome all new users for this beta version and hope that you enjoy the FortKnoxster experience.

The airdrop/referral element of the marketing campaign will cease on Friday 10th August (Please note, US & Singapore citizens cannot participate in the FortKnoxster Airdrop Campaign)

Come join us in Barcelona: Meet Eddy & Rasmus At The World Ethical Data Forum 19th-20th September, Barcelona Spain.

Co-Founder Rasmus Birger Christiansen and I will be attending the World Ethical Data Forum from the 19–20th September at the World Trade Centre, Barcelona Spain.

If you would like to catch up at the event or if you have any questions, please contact sh@fortknoxster.com. Tapas & Cervezas on us!;)

The Billy Krepper Series: How to..?

Here is Part 4 & 5 of the How To of our CTO Billy Krepper Series on Email Encryption & IPFS in FortKnoxster for all our new members with a reminder summary of the important points.

We will be releasing Part 6 & 7 of this series in the coming weeks where Billy will be talking about External Email & Identity Proof.

Summary of Part 4: How does Encryption work on FortKnoxster:

1. Secure bonding is generated when a link is establish in the FK platform

2. When you accept a contact the encryption keys for each user are stored and signed so that this information cannot be altered or modified without being detected.

3. When a user sends a mail, FK grabs the encryption keys from the recipient and then we encrypt the mail with an AES Key which includes the encryption of both the mail and all of its content.

4. FK encrypts the key with the recipients encryption key so that only the recipient can decrypt the mail and its content, we then combine this in a data structure so that we ourselves (the FK platform) signs, seals and sends the message with it’s data in a secure manner.

5. Our server only holds the content/mail/message it does not decrypt it

6. Once the recipient signs in to FK they decrypt the message upon receiving it and they then extract the information from the message.

7. The FK system verifies and checks the integrity of all messages

8. Once a message is opened, the recipient uses their keys to decrypt and read the message.

9. Every mail uses a different AES Key.

10. The system is completely secure.

Summary of Part 5: Interplanetary File System: (IPFS)

Interplanetary File System (IPFS). It’s a peer-to-peer (p2p) method of storing and sharing information in a distributed way.

Data stored in IPFS is publicly available.

IPFS combines very well with the FortKnoxster platform as data (files) can be cached on the IPFS network making access faster and avoiding single point of failures, please remember these data or files are ALWAYS encrypted.

We currently implement IPFS on our own cluster and we use this to hold the data for our identity process, which is linked to the blockchain.

Making identity data publicly available and verifiable by anyone.

Looking ahead, FortKnoxster will also use IPFS as distributed storage.

We are looking very closely at the evolution of IPFS’s javascript implementation as this will allow us to move storage process as close to the client/user as possible.

Allowing access to your data without needing a server, your machine will communicate directly with the IPFS network that will request, combine and decrypt your file(s) as needed.

Final Reminder: Don’t forget… 1st September.

Please be aware that the old DEMO version of FortKnoxster located here: https://demo.fortknoxster.com will be shut down on the 1st September therefore it is important to extract/backup/copy (manually) any important information or documents you have stored as these will be removed and no longer available.

Till the next,

Eddy de Heij | CEO Fortknoxster | @bovengever

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