Send Anonymous Messages in public chats

[errorists]

Feature Issue

The scope of this feature is to design and implement an interface to seamlessly send messages in public chats that display the Anonymous account to all its recipients rather than your chat key.

User Story

As a user, I want to send anonymous messages in chats so that I don't have to reveal my chat key when I want to send a message anonymously and its recipients won't know it's coming from me.

Description

1. Design the interface to toggle the anonymous 'mode'
2. Implement it, detailed description of steps necessary for the UI will follow once the design is ready

Acceptance Criteria

I can send messages as an Anonymous user and its recipients see it as such, the UI is seamlessly integrated and easy to reach in a conversation.

Notes

One way to implement this as suggested by @3esmit

• Allow users to send messages in public chats as "anonymous": use a keyless method of signature (use the hash of the message as r,s of signature) - if r and s are a exatly the same, and/or are hash of the message, the message can be considered "signed by anonymous"

[3esmit]

This was inspired by https://medium.com/@weka/how-to-send-ether-to-11-440-people-187e332566b7

To see an example of contract deployed anonymously, see https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2470

[StatusWrike]

➤ Hester Bruikman commented:

Related proposal here: https://discuss.status.im/t/sending-anonymous-messages/1703/5