As part of our ongoing effort to “decentralize all the things”, we have developed secure communications software that we are open sourcing today, called zkc. While zkc is not part of the Decred project proper, it is being released as part of our wider effort to increase individual liberty through technology. zkc stands for “zero knowledge communications” and is intended to provide the highest level of communications security balanced with minimal complexity in its code, configuration and usage. The various cryptographic protocols used in zkc draw from other existing secure communications tools, such as Signal and Pond. zkc is a blending of what we consider to be the best parts of both of these projects, and with its initial release, it …