NostrMail

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NostrMail is a working cross‑platform E2EE email client that uses Nostr for key discovery, lets Gmail/IMAP users send encrypted subjects and bodies by encoding ciphertext as human‑readable wordlists, and ships on the Zapstore. It replaces brittle ASCII armor with wordlist encoding (BIP39) and a grammar layer called Glossia Mad Libs so signatures survive quoting/forwarding, enabling stacked verifiable replies — a practical “chain mail” that actually forwards and verifies.

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1. 0:00NostrMail intro
2. 1:10Digital signatures in society
3. 2:58PGP and email cryptography issues
4. 6:10Human-friendly ciphertext with Glossia
5. 11:28NostrMail demo workflow
6. 14:20Chain mail verification stacking
7. 15:24Comparison with other Nostr mail
8. 16:27Future features and use cases
9. 18:32Q&A

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