System, methods and software application for sending secured messages on decentralized networks
Systems and methods of sending secured messages on decentralized networks are provided. A software application distributed and installed on a computer terminal that willing is able to participate in the system, where the computer terminal is interactively and dynamically connected to one or two decentralized peer-to-peer communication networks, using the Internet. One of the networks is used to advise about the presence of a message and the other is used to securely store the content of the messages. An alternative embodiment is to use only the decentralized storage system, if it can also acts as a Public Ledger network, with its native crypto-currency. The cryptographic keys of the first network are used to protect the content of the file and to derive where the messages will be stored on the decentralized storage network. In such networks, the transactions are handled by cryptographic mathematical algorithms, which are known to be identical across all users or participants of the same network.
1. A method for sending secure messages on de-centralized networks, comprising the steps of:
installing a secure messaging program on a plurality of user terminals, including a sender terminal and a receiver terminal;
within an instance of the secure messaging program on the sender terminal:
deriving a first public cryptographic key (K1) and a second public cryptographic key (K2) from a child extended public key of an intended message receiver,
encrypting a message with the first public cryptographic key (K1),
storing the encrypted message on a de-centralized data storage network at a location identified by the second public cryptographic key (K2), and
broadcasting a transaction to an address identified by the first public cryptographic key (K1) on a peer-to-peer network, the transaction including a derivation path of the second public cryptographic key (K2); and
within an instance of the secure messaging program on the receiver terminal:
retrieving the encrypted message from the de-centralized data storage network using a private key corresponding to the first public cryptographic key (K1), and
decrypting the encrypted message with the private key corresponding to the first public cryptographic key (K1).
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the storage data network and the peer-to-peer network are the same network.