gigamatt · HackerTrans

https://github.com/gigablast is the gigablast open source software. private.sh just uses javascript so that's already available by viewing the html source. there is also a chrome extension for private.sh as well as an android app in the google play store if you want to have a persistent, verifiable version of the javascript if you are concerned about MITM attacks.

gigamatt

5 lat temudiscuss

https://private.sh/ is something I've been working on lately. It is powered by my search engine of 20 years, https://gigablast.com/ . private.sh can't be evil because it uses javascript encryption to encrypt your query so that only gigablast can read it, and then it routes your encrypted query through a proxy so that gigablast does not know your IP. This level of privacy is a notch above what everyone else is offering as it is guaranteed by cryptography. Basically we can only offer this because Gigablast is the back-end search engine, not Google or Bing. You need a backend search engine that supports the encrypted query protocol. All the other "search engines" in the U.S. are just serving Bing or Google, but mostly just Bing.

gigamatt

5 lat temudiscuss

hi, gigablast creator, matt, here. thanks for mentioning gigablast. i've been coding web search engines for almost 25 years so it's always nice to see ppl recognize. i wish more ppl would care about these things. with enough people caring i think i (or we) could make gigablast into a super transparent, private search engine that doesn't rely on big tech like the other guys. really i just need more hardware at this point as that is the main technical hurdle for improving results quality and performance. if somebody would give me like $1M in amd-based minicomputers (i like minicomputers better than big servers - preferably asus) i think we could have something much better and faster, although what is there is pretty good -- this might be enough to really get things going.

gigamatt

5 lat temudiscuss

the source code for gigablast is on github. yes, gigablast has image search but private.sh needs to start using it soon.

gigamatt

5 lat temudiscuss

The encryption code is open source as it is in the javascript so you can evaluate it. It's also available in the chrome plug-in, and there's now the app in the android play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privatesh.... so the private.sh web server or related anonymyzing proxy don't have access to your query since it is encrypted. on the gigablast servers will know your query, but they won't know your IP address.

gigamatt

5 lat temudiscuss

I've been working on this private search engine https://private.sh/ for a while. It encrypts your query using client-side javascript so only the Gigablast search engine can read your query. And your query is delivered to Gigablast through an anonymizing proxy that is not in Gigablast's control. So you get TOR-like privacy. Also Gigablast's privacy policy https://gigablast.com/privacy.html shows that your query is not transmitted to 3rd parties or used for anything other than to return your results. Gigablast also has 0 dependencies on Bing or Google.

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