m2usenet Gateway v2.6
1. Load Identity or Start Fresh
🔑 Have a saved identity? Load it to auto-fill all fields.
Or fill the fields below to create a new identity.
About m2usenet: A privacy-focused gateway that posts to Usenet newsgroups over Tor hidden services. No access logs are kept. To post you must first create — or load — a VFACE pseudonymous identity: an Ed25519 keypair whose public key deterministically generates your identicon. Same key → same identicon → same person over time.
What is Proof-of-Work? This step generates a hashcash token that prevents spam by requiring your computer to perform some calculations.
2. Sign Your Message
What is this? Your keypair is generated and your message is signed locally in your browser with the self-hosted TweetNaCl (nacl) library — your Ed25519 secret key never leaves your device. Only the public identity (username, email, public key) is sent, to render the identicon. The signature proves you authored this post.
VFACE / Face Header: Your identicon is produced by the original identicons-cli engine — the same backend as identicons.virebent.art — so it is fully deterministic: the same key always yields the same identicon. It is embedded as a folded Face: header (RFC 4021/2822) alongside X-Ed25519-Pub and X-Ed25519-Sig, visible in newsreaders like Newsgrouper and re-verifiable by any reader from your public key.
Send Message
What is this? This final step sends your signed message to the Usenet network via Tor hidden services.
🔐 Full Onion Network Path
Your message travels entirely within the Tor network:
Specialized SMTP relays operating over Tor hidden services
Show relay nodes
- PRIMARY: 4uwpi53u524xdphjw2dv5kywsxmyjxtk4facb76jgl3sc3nda3sz4fqd.onion:25
- FALLBACK: xilb7y4kj6u6qfo45o3yk2kilfv54ffukzei3puonuqlncy7cn2afwyd.onion:25
Converts email to Usenet posts while maintaining full anonymity.
Final destination for Usenet Tor hidden service.
🔒 Privacy Guarantee: Your message never leaves the Tor network until it reaches the NNTP server. All three components (SMTP → Mail2News → NNTP) operate as Tor hidden services, providing end-to-end anonymity.