N2Usenet Gateway v2.7 Nym
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 N2Usenet: A privacy-focused standalone gateway that posts to Usenet newsgroups over Nym to the TCPReset Mail2News and NNTP infrastructure. 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, and 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.
Saving is optional: skip it for a fresh throwaway identity each time, or save the file to reuse the same identicon later and prove later posts are from the same author. Keep the file private, whoever holds it can sign as you.
Send Message
What is this? This final step sends your signed message to Usenet via Nym, Mail2News, and the news.tcpreset.net NNTP service.
🔐 Nym to TCPReset Posting Path
Your message is submitted over HTTPS, then relayed through Nym to the authenticated Virebent mail gateway and finally into news.tcpreset.net NNTP:
Nym SOCKS5/requester transport to authenticated TLS submission on the Virebent MTA.
Show relay nodes
- SMTP: mail.virebent.art:587 STARTTLS + AUTH via Nym SOCKS5
- MTA: Postfix relay with SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Converts the signed email payload into a Usenet post for the TCPReset news service.
Final posting target for the standalone N2Usenet path.
🔒 Privacy Guarantee: The browser-to-server hop is HTTPS. Nym carries the authenticated SMTP TLS session to the Virebent MTA. Postfix signs and relays the message to Mail2News, which posts into news.tcpreset.net NNTP.