Secured End-To-End,
No Metadata Leaking,
No Size Limit,
Open-Source and Forever Free

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Metadata, WEB3 and How to Pleximail

Meta Data. An Extremely Important Privacy Threat. Cant Be Ignored!

PlexiMail Architecture: This is the first Web 3.0 app released as part of the PlexiApp suite by ai-fi.net.

AMERICA'S SURVEILLANCE STATE: Mass Surveillance is the focus of this new 6 part investigative documentary series examining who is watching whom and why.

Features

If you are not paying, you're the product.

Anti-Surveillance

PII Cloaking

Self-Owned Storage

Transparency

Anonymity and Privacy

You are not the product

The Magic of Web3

Identity Cloaking

You are represented by multiple blockchain addresses stored and managed through your MetaMask wallet. They are totally opaque hex strings and not revealing any PII. Only the wallet owner has control over them.

TOFU (Trust On First Use)

You and your private group jointly control the mapping of your PlexiMail addresses to their real world identities or PII. This TOFU security arrangement is triggered when the group members contact each other for the first time.

No Metadata Leakage

All TOFU security arrangement are conducted out of band between private parties and involve no third parties, the PlexiMail therefore carries no metadata and completely private.

Self Reliance

By depositing your emails at your own private storage space, you are no longer at the mercy of any big techs or third-party providers. Your email content is inherently warrant-proof.

No More Email Size Limit

Since you are in control of your own repositories, your emails can be as big as you prefer, limited only by your own resources. Currently we use Web3.Storage, which offers the first 5 GB for free. For business applications, those raw storage space can be pooled together to practically unlimited sizes.

Trustless Service

The authentication and session establishment logic are embodied in Ethereum Smart Contract, with nominal event notification offloaded to offchain services.

Open-Sourced Fat Client

The logic conducted by the PlexiMail Smart Contract is kept at a minimum. Most heavy lifting are delegated to the fat PlexiMail dApp, buildable from an open source, reviewable by any interested parties and customizable according to a public standard.

Distributed and Tailorable Services

All email logic are open-sourced. Customers and developers may modify and roll their own based on an open API for interacing with PlexiMail Smart Contract and other open system services.

Mobile Utility App Donwloads

PlexiMail Utility for Android

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PlexiMail Utility for iOS

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Utility Tokens and Wallet Refills

Funding Private PlexiMail Wallets

PlexiMail consists of a set of free software that supports private and secure emails under the Web3 framework as a dApp. It is free in the sense that the client software and all the server components are open-sourced and free to license, but the actual operation of the Smart Contract and its supporting off-chain services must be jointly funded by individual users who choose to participate. If something is free, you're the product. "Freedom is never given". We, as a community of independent individuals not willing to be turned into the product, are required to foot the bill jointly. As a Web3 dApp running on Ethereum blockchain, its operations consume “Ethereum gas”, which is the charge by the Ethereum blockchain for your consumption of its computing resources. The initial anonymized identity registration incurs the bulk of the gas fees (below $1.50 currently). Also, a nominal charge of $.0001 per sent email would be assessed to thwart DDOS, which is triggered only when such attacks are detected.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

The PlexiMail addresses are 40-char hex strings mapped directly to their supporting Ethereum blockchain accounts protected by their dedicated public/private key pairs. They are long, unwieldy and not tied to any of your PII (Personally Identifiable Information) for metadata protection. Use your private "Contacts" list to manage them. You can maintain multiple addresses in the MetaMask wallet, each has its own contact exposure associated with its designated application scenario. Get details about them in the "Help" section of this website.

No, it's not. Functionally, your email addresses have been intricately tied to your PII (Personally Identifiable Information), without tracking which traditional email providers have no way of monetizing their "free" services. On the other hand, the PlexiMails are anonymized and trustless. It defeats the purpose for PlexiMails to be "backward compatible" with traditional emails if metadata is of critical concern.

PlexiMail is a self-service dApp, the software and upkeep of which are free, whereas its enabling Smart Contract on the Ethereum blockchain costs "gas" to access. You need to maintain sufficient amount of ETH in your wallet to pay for the gas, which is mostly charged at the starting registration phase, costing less than 2 US$ currently.

Adopting the PlexiMail, you are in control of your email accounts and their interactions with your contacts. Privacy protection with no third-party service providers does come at a cost. All your emails are encrypted and deposited in their respective Web3Storage repositories. Those repositories are not likely to disappear on you, but the encryption keys and their session contexts are. All the materials for recovering your past emails are collectively termed as "Configuration Settings", which need to be backed up periodically in case of any loss events, such as losing your phones or PCs on which they were originally stored.

The PlexiMail is web-based and runs on any platforms where the Chrome browser, Edge, Firefox and a few Chrome based custom browsers are supported. Some users install the Brave browser strictly to use its built-in Tor, while keep their everyday Chrome for ordinary browsings. Many users find the "standalone option" convenient, namely setting it up as an independent app (in its own tab all by itself in the PWA formulation).

PlexiMail achieves its feat as a truly trustless dApp by combining an Ethereum Smart Contract and a few offchain utilites: individualized mail repositories, session data storage and event notification, most of which are to overcome the blockchain resource limitations. All offchain resources are customizable if a user group elects to deploy their own in substitution for the built-in ones in order to be fully truetless. It is trust-minimized otherwise.

Ethereum accounts are definitely not anonymous. You can fund them through any means you considered private or anonymized, such as thru cash or privacy-focused cryptos like Monero, Zcash, DASH, etc. However, for funding the small amount to start up your PlexiMail accounts, this is just a hassle. You may consider using our Account Refill Service for this purpose that does not record the payer PII in a 2-step payment process. Click on the "Token" button on top of this page.

Working with a Web3 dApp without relying on any 3rd-party providers, one needs to have our own email repositories. This is how we wean ourselves off any service providers and eliminate any metadata leaking possibilities. PlexiMail takes advantage of the Web3Storage service, which deploys the tokenized Filecoin cloud storage under the global IPFS infrastructure at a reasonable cost (free for the first 5 GB). All our data/metadata in the Web3Storage cloud are encrypted and not possible to be traced back to their originating PlexiMail accounts. Obviously we'd like to offer more selections for our storage requirement for cost reduction and performance enhancement in the future.

As an open source, this subsitution is definitely possible with a bit of work. However, it is definitely not a good idea of mixing your PlexiMail accounts with ordinary Ethereum trading accounts, which is simply not anonymous. Simplifying the intial setup by utilizing your own wallet is probably the only advisable thing to do. Just keep in mind that in the follow-on releases we will offer an integrated wallet, with a built-in Threshold Signature support to boot. It will be much more friendly than working with MetaMask as a separate app and offer superior security.

We firmly believe that conducting business face to face, only among vested parties without involving any man-in-the-middle third-party providers, will be in fashion again by the advent of Web3 technologies. PlexiMail wants to be the cornerstone of this unhampered information flow in the Web3 ecosystem without engaging in surveillance for business gains. Our business success in future product offerings is predicated on the popularity of this foundational PlexiMail infrastructure, which will remain free and open for obvious reasons. Come back and visit this page often for any future product announcement.

The business venture behind all those frameworks and products is ai-fi.net, which has been in existence for many years. Some of our technologies predate the advent of Web3 and even the term of Surveillance Capitalism. Our eyes have been firmly on the prize of privacy preservation from day one, which culminated in the prototype release of our mobile app Counterseal in the Apple App Store. Inspired by the recent Filecoin tokenized cloud storage offerings, we've made another great stride in releasing the PlexiMail, which hopefully would be easier to accept as seemingly a secure email offering without fully recognizing its revolutionary implications. Note that ai-fi.net and counterseal.net will be bought up to date as resources allow.