http://www.elpais.es/suple/ciberpais/articulo.html?xref=20021031elpcibenr_6& type=Tes&d_date=20021031&anchor=elpcibred Translation provided by Phiberoptika. A P2P program permits users "to chat" anonymously with encrypted messages. Invisible IP is easy to install and its registering up to 50 downloads per day. MERCÈ MOLIST Exactly 1 year ago, in 0x90's head came up with the idea: of creating a network of anonymous chat, using the distributed model peer-to-peer, open source, and compatible with others platforms, where security and privacy were priorities. Today, 0X90 and a small group of people fascinated with the idea work already in the version 1.1, that works successfully in their network of invisible chat. Freenet, where they exchange archives anonymously since 2000, was their inspiration.: "I thought ....Freenet has lots of potential, but its only used for large and static content, has not too much to do with communications. From there was born the idea of The Invisible IRC Project (IIP), explains 0X90. Freenet had its origin with the programmer Ian Clarke, it functions in a secure and distributed way and is considered a system that no one can control, even its creators. Like Freenet, IIP offers anonymity to the users and the ciphering of their words: "Our technological ideal is sustained in that you can't attack that that you cant see. If not one of the users and servers know where are the encryption keys, How would they get them? In a notoriously insecure Internet, ours is the layer of transport that was missing, the one that takes the anonymity, privacy, and security to the highest level." If something stands out about Invisible IP is its easy. It works with the main operating systems and chat programs, in a IRC network that does not differ from the Hispanic-IRC, except for its security. The users install a little program that indicates the path and a random choice from a list of nodes decides the node to the network you are going to connect to, in an anonymous way, until you get to the IRC server and to around 30 public channels of chat. There are currently no statistics of usage, but they do have 50 people a day that are downloading the program. "It is not yet completely decentralized. It uses only P2P in one of the network layers: the transmission one, which is public. The users and the diffusion ones are private. Like that the users are hidden from the network and this one from them. In the future, there would be no servers, and the diffusion layer would be totally decentralized: each user will be the node that will do certain tasks to keep the network", affirms 0X90. Then, they'll add encryption to the channels and the communication client to client, although, now it is already strongly encrypted. If someone wanted to record your activity should have to modify the IRC server itself. In case, we've included a protocol were all the messages are protected and never could be revealed. And, if someone infiltrates, they will never know who said what and from where." About monitoring by ISP's, explains 0X90: "The decentralization means you do not have to worry about them. The cryptography and the chaotic traffic protect the obtaining of comprehensible data. Besides, we are planning other things like hiding the usage of cryptography and that, although an ISP has information of all the nodes, they never have enough." The design of Invisible IP anticipates their use in other fields like communication through voice or wireless networks.