If you find something, I'm willing to help with that hurdle...

Surprising there are so many, yet none using anything but BTC (Yet).



Might be worth starting to spread the word to them!

From Reddit:

"Anyone with access between the phone and the wallet can intercept a versiend transaction and (1) record the amount, (2) record the destination, (3) change the amount, (4) change the destination. And not say thank you.
What can you do with a StealthText transaction besides note the phone number and that someone was trying to send some encrypted information?""

http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2es896/stealthcoin_release_anonymous_sms_transactions/

StealthText testing was a successful!
I was able to sent 4 small transactions from my galaxy phone to premined address;

block 69025 for 5 XST
block 69026 for 6.2 XST
block 69057 for 2.2111 XST
block 69065 for 3.255 XST

this proved StealthText worked! I will posting video sometime today.. it's time for me to get some shut-eye

removed?

This isn't the final draft of the whitepaper, but I hope it answers some basic questions. Indeed, StealthText is the technology for "anonymous SMS transactions".

The following text explains the illustration below.

Let's imagine Bob wants to send 420 XST to Carol. Bob has set up his own pipeline or is a customer of an online wallet service that has provides a pipeline. Either is possible because anyone can set up his or her own pipeline.

Now, Bob is operating under some constraints today. He has his phone and can SMS, but for whatever reason has no access to his data services. But he needs his transaction to get to Carol securely and privately (anonymously). He can't afford for anyone to tamper with his transaction, like "flipping a bit" to change the amount, nor can he afford for an adversary, such as a competing business, to know the nature of his transaction with Carol.

Bob is in luck today, because he has installed StealthText on his phone. In his settings dialog, he has entered a secret passphrase (that could be a random string of characters), the phone number of his SMS forwarding service (like google voice), and a client ID, that is not essential but can be used for routing (in the screenshots, this is 1zrL2Jk, which is random for the sake of the example).

His wallet (whether on the cloud or in his computer at home) knows this secret passphrase and his PIN , which is the second part of StealthText's two-factor authentication. To make his transaction, he enters Carol's XST address ("SGVQhkwom..", the first S has been cut off in the screenshots) the amount (420 XST) and his PIN, which he shares with no one and has memorized. He then hits "Send" and confirms the transaction. StealthText then sends the anonymous, encrypted transaction through SMS where it enters the pipeline.

The SMS message with the anonymous transaction, is routed to Bob's SMS forwarding service (like google voice) which then turns it into an email that is sent to Bob's email account. If using google voice, this would be a gmail account. The mail is then handled by Bob's mail client (like Thunderbird) enabled with an addon that can send it to his file system, or in cases like OS X mail, send it directly to a simple message processor on his computer that turns it into a wallet command and sends it to his wallet. (We will provide the message processor for Thunderbird as an open source project).

The XST wallet (as of version 1.2.0.1) is enabled to recognize this this command and the anonymous, encrypted transaction. The wallet decrypts the transaction. Because the transaction is encrypted on Bob's phone but never decrypted until it hits his wallet, it remains secure and anonymous until the transaction is created inside the wallet.

As with all transactions, the wallet broadcasts Carlol's 420 XST to the TOR network, which ensures that Carol gets her funds securely and privately.

Note that StealthText has the following attributes:

Anonymous

StealthText is anonymous because no one except for Bob can know the contents of the encrypted transaction while on transit to his wallet. Once there, it remains anonymous because StealthCoin uses the Tor network.

Secure

StealthText uses AES encryption combined with GCM encrypted authentication. This means that a multitude of attacks which try to blindly manipulate the encrypted transaction to change it's value, destination, or otherwise corrupt it, will be detected by the wallet. In fact, the transaction will be rejected by the wallet if just one bit of one byte of the encrypted transaction is modified ("bit flip attack").

Moreover the wallet has safeguards against delayed transactions and "replay attacks". That is, once the wallet broadcasts the transaction, it will not accept the same transaction again. So, if an adversary intercepts the message and sends it numerous times to Bob's wallet, the wallet will not re-send the funds no matter how many replays the adversary attempts.

SMS

StealthText does not rely on Bob's phone having data capabilities. This allows Bob to send funds anonymously and securely from any part of the world where SMS is available, or when his data services experience outage due to adversarial attack or natural causes.

Decentralized

Any person or servcie can establish their own pipeline. They only need the StealthText app and a StealthCoin wallet greater than or equal to version 1.2.0.1. Any SMS forwarding service can send the message to any media of delivery. Email is the most convenient for me, but it could also be http or any other protocol. For the proof-of-concept, I used google voice and gmail. The only glue in the entire chain is a program that can change an email with the message, for example, into a wallet command that looks like this:


As mentioned above, we will provide the glue in the form of a message processor for the Thunderbird email client.


I hope this answers questions. I'm also looking forward to writing a more detailed whitepaper and to see it incarnate with the awesome graphics that I'm sure our designer will produce (I'll admit that my graphics are a bit primitive).

We will release the StealthText Android app as soon as we have some testers try it out. Our Android dev is on vacation in the Mediterranean region right now, so hopefully we can get ahold of him to put it up on google play. If not, we will simply release a bundle that can be installed manually fairly easily. In such a case, we'll put it on google play when he returns from vacation. Either way, it will be available to users within a day or so, after beta testing.

Also, we do plan an iOS version for iPhone users and soon after that we will port StealthText to platforms that are not considered "smartphones".

-- Hondo

Call for StealthText Testers!

With the pipeline complete & new wallet update rolled out, we are now in the final stages of the StealthText release. This means we need your help.

Before putting Stealthtext into the wild, we want to test it on a variety of Android handsets. We are opening a call for volunteers who will get an exclusive sneak peek of the app in the final stages of development.

If you are interested in being in this special group of testers, please reply to this post with what Android device(s) you have. We will publicly pick these testers and ask them to report back findings as a “Proof of Concept”. Within a few days of completion of this test, we shall release the application on Google Pay for the general public.


To apply, you must have:


1. Available Android device we have not tested (we have already tested on: LG Note 3, Samsung S3, & Samsung S5 )
2. Newest StealthCoin QT installed and synced
4. You must be available 08/27/14  @ 9 pm PST for at least 2 hours
5. You must be willing to report back to the community, provide us feedback, and answer questions about your experience
6. Most importantly, you must have patience and a good attitude.

We appreciate the contributions & can’t wait to work with the vibrant StealthCoin community!

I'm working on completing the StealthText pipeline tonight, and it's going to turn to the 26th in California, USA in about an hour. I don't think I'll be done with the wallet additions by then, but I'm about 95% sure I'll be done by tomorrow night.

I've linked the pipeline from the mobile app to the wallet about 90% as well and just need to figure out how to correctly invoke the simple message processor that directs the message to the wallet, where the transaction will be broadcast to the Tor network.

So, instead of releasing the android app tonight (which is done and tested but not on google play yet) and the wallet changes (which I'm still working on) and then releasing the message processor in a few days, I believe that tomorrow at this time, we'll be able to release the full pipeline. That includes an android app, an intermediate message processor, and the StealthText-enabled wallet. I'll also be able to give the procedure for proof of concept, which should involve no manual steps from an end-user except for interacting with the android app. These instructions will allow users to verify the proof of concept for themselves. Then, a couple of days after that, I'll have the whitepaper, which will formally describe the cryptography and pipeline.

I'm writing this announcement because it is going to get late soon and I want to give myself an out for the evening (a couple of hours from now) so I can get some sleep if the proof of concept isn't complete. Otherwise I will work through the night to finish. Basically, I do not want to be dead tomorrow for my day job and I need to commit to getting enough sleep.

-- Hondo

It looks much more like a steady decline and a general lose of interest in XST.

I think it would be very useful if the Dev team could check these Reddit's intermittently. I think comments directly from the Dev team will carry a lot more credibility than Stealthcoin users. Someone has already asked why Stealthcoin is better than Bitcoin, for example.

I am not trying to dictate how the Dev team spend their time - just an idea to try to boost awareness.

Please up-vote if you agree with the posts.

http://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/2e9yjp/stealthcoin_tor_enabled_anonymous_currency/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2e68s0/stealthcoin_tor_enabled_anonymous_currency/

getting "Alert message 5 from Hondor." (sp?) ....everytime I open the client OSX

Good, these days reddit thread is very important to success of any coin.
Community love to read and comment on reddit, if we will get good response from there
then surely we will succeed what we want, just keep talkative on that thread.

I have created a Reddit to try to raise awareness of Stealthcoin in the TOR community. Please can you upvote the post if you agree with it. Let's try to build some awareness ahead of the next few release dates.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/2e68s0/stealthcoin_tor_enabled_anonymous_currency/

lol @ the idea that Bilzerian worked for it.