Hushwire: encrypted communities with text and voice channels, role-based permissions, and message pins — like Discord, except nothing you say or type can be spied on by us or anyone else.
Channels, voice chat, roles, DMs. The stuff you use every day. The difference is that everything is encrypted before it leaves your device.
Organize your community the way you already know — channels, categories, direct messages. Encrypted end-to-end by default, not as an afterthought.
Hop in a voice channel and actually talk freely. Same encryption as text, low latency, no third party listening in.
Run your community your way. Multi-role system, custom permissions, moderation tools — without giving up encryption to get them.
The same proven cryptography that protects billions of messages.
Every message uses a unique key. Even if one is compromised, your past and future conversations stay sealed. That's not optional — it's how it works.
The server delivers your messages without knowing who sent them. We don't collect metadata because metadata is a liability.
You already know the pitch from every other platform: we care about your privacy. And then they log everything, sell the patterns, and hand it over when someone with a badge asks nicely. Discord's recent data breaches and push to collect government IDs are only the latest reminder of where that road leads.
Hushwire doesn't ask you to trust us. The server literally cannot read your messages. Not because of a policy: because of math. Your messages are encrypted on your device before they ever touch the network, and only the people you're talking to can decrypt them.
If you've ever had to think twice about what you say in a group chat — about who you are, who you're with, what you believe, what you're working on — this is built for you. Not as a feature. As the entire point.
Most "secure" platforms make you choose between usability and privacy. Hushwire doesn't.
Messages are encrypted on your device. The server relays ciphertext — it never sees plaintext, never stores readable messages, and can't be compelled to produce what it doesn't have.
The entire encryption layer is public. Security researchers can read every line, audit every decision, and break it if they can. That's the point — transparency is the trust model.
Choose the right tradeoff for each conversation. From full-history channels for casual talk to ephemeral mode that deletes messages after delivery.
Hushwire's encryption library is fully open source. The protocol is Signal — the same one used by the Signal app, WhatsApp, and others. We didn't invent our own crypto because that's how you get it wrong.
If you're a security researcher, the code is there. Read it. Audit it. Try to break it. If you find something, we want to hear about it.
Hushwire is in closed alpha. Download the client, create a community, and invite the people who matter.
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