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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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<title>Hermes — messaging by name — Silent Mode</title>
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<meta name="description" content="Hermes: end-to-end encrypted messaging where your Bitcoin Cash name is your identity. NIP-17 sealed DMs over Nostr, no email, no phone number, no company account.">
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="../shared.css">
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<body>
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<nav class="topnav">
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<a class="brand" href="../">⛓️ Silent <span class="g">Mode</span></a>
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<a href="../nav/">Tools</a>
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<a href="../apps/">Apps</a>
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<a href="../register.html">Names</a>
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<a href="../store/">Store</a>
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<a href="./" class="here">Messenger</a>
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</nav>
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<header class="hero">
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<div class="mark">⛓️✉️</div>
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<h1>Hermes <span class="pill p-designed" style="vertical-align:middle;font-size:12px;margin-left:.6rem">designed · not yet built</span></h1>
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<p class="tag">End-to-end encrypted DMs over Nostr, addressed by your
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<code class="inline">.bch</code> name instead of a public-key string. Same wallet
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is your identity — no email, no phone number, no company, no server that can delete
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your account.</p>
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</header>
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<div class="wrap narrow">
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<section class="plain">
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<h2>The one idea that makes this different</h2>
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<p class="lede">Every existing Nostr client has the same wart: identity is
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<code class="inline">npub1q8s7f3k…</code> gibberish. The human-name fix — NIP-05 —
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resolves <code class="inline">alice@example.com</code> through a DNS domain and a
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web server. That is exactly the ICANN + server chain Silent Mode exists to escape.
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Decentralized messaging bolted onto centralized identity.</p>
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<div class="note"><b>The Hermes pitch.</b><br>
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<code class="inline">alice.bch</code> publishes her Nostr pubkey as an on-chain
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record. Her name certificate <i>is</i> her verified, seizure-resistant identity.
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Message anyone by their <code class="inline">.bch</code> name — no phone number, no
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email, no ICANN, no company, no server that can delete your account.</div>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>How it works</h2>
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<ol class="steps">
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<li><b>Your name owns your key.</b>
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<span>Register any name you like on the chain (or reuse one you already own),
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publish your Nostr pubkey to it as a new <code class="inline">np</code> record.
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The key is derived from the same wallet seed as the name itself, so one seed
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backs both.</span></li>
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<li><b>Find people by name.</b>
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<span>Type <code class="inline">bob.bch</code>. The client resolves it against
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the chain, pulls <code class="inline">np</code> (Nostr pubkey) and
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<code class="inline">nr</code> (preferred relays). No directory server involved.</span></li>
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<li><b>Send the message sealed.</b>
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<span>NIP-17 gift-wrapped DMs — the relay sees neither sender nor content, only
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that a wrap addressed to some pubkey exists. Route over Tor to also hide your
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IP; Theseus already can.</span></li>
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<li><b>The name shows, not the pubkey.</b>
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<span>Incoming messages reverse-resolve pubkey → name where possible, so your
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chat list looks like a normal chat list — not a wall of hex.</span></li>
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</ol>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Where it will live</h2>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>In Theseus <span class="src s-chain">desktop</span></h3>
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<p>A Messages panel inside the browser you already have. Routes relay traffic over
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Tor. Reuses the built-in wallet's seed as the messaging identity.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>In Ariadne mobile <span class="src s-chain">phone</span></h3>
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<p>A Messages screen in the existing Android app. Same seed, same identity — you
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can message from either device without a linked-account handshake.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<section>
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<h2>Honest boundaries</h2>
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<div class="grid">
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Messaging, not email</h3>
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<p>No Gmail interop — by design. A separate anonymous-mailbox product covers
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"sign up on services without leaking a real address."</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Metadata resistance is good, not perfect</h3>
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<p>NIP-17 hides sender and content from relays. Relays still see the recipient
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pubkey, timing, and your connection IP unless you route over Tor. The UI will
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tell you when it's on.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="card">
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<h3>Relays are Nostr's soft spot</h3>
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<p>A message lives only while some relay keeps it. Silent Mode runs one relay on
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the same anonymous VPS as the gateway, and writes to a few public relays for
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reach and redundancy.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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</section>
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<div class="note warn"><b>Status: designed, not built.</b> The full protocol design is
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in <a href="https://github.com/deviant"><code class="inline">Hermes/DESIGN-hermes.md</code></a>
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(mirror). Nothing to install yet — this page exists to say what is coming, and to
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make it possible to ask for updates in the messaging panel of a future Theseus or
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Ariadne build.</div>
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</div>
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<footer>
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<div>Silent Mode — a Deviant project.</div>
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<div class="fine">Named for the messenger of the gods. Not yet built. Contents subject
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to change until the first client ships.</div>
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</footer>
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