This article shows you how to download and install the full version of Gossip v0.9.0 for free on a PC. Follow the direct download link and instructions below for guidance on installing Gossip v0.9.0 on your computer.
About the software
Gossip is a desktop client for NOSTR
Nostr is an open social media protocol empowering lots of software such as this client. The experience is kind of like Twitter except that you control your own account, and you can post to many different independent places called “relays”. People are finding many additional uses for NOSTR that go far beyond micro-blogging or chatting, but this client is focused on those.
The main features of Gossip are:
- Secure Key Handling: Gossip handles private keys as securely as reasonable (short of hardware tokens), keeping them encrypted under a passphrase on disk, requiring that passphrase on startup, and zeroing memory before freeing it. This shouldn’t really be a point of difference but few other clients bother.
- Avoids Browser-Tech: Gossip avoids web technologies (other than HTTP GET and WebSockets which are necessary for nostr). The web stack is huge, complex, and probably full of undiscovered vulnerabilities, presenting as a huge attack surface. This includes Javascript, the very many and ever-expanding set of web technologies built into browsers and accessible via javascript, and even HTML parsing, rendering, and CSS. This isn’t just a pedantic or theoretical concern; people have already had their private key stolen from other nostr clients. We use simple OpenGL-style rendering instead. It’s not as pretty but it gets the job done.
- Performant: Gossip aims towards being highly performant, using the LMDB database, the rust language, and coding architectures with performance always in mind. Unless you have quite old hardware, the network speed will probably be your bottleneck.
- High user control: Gossip has (at the time of writing) 64 different settings. When the right value is uncertain, I pick a reasonable default and give the user the mechanism to change it.
- Privacy Options: in case someone wishes to remain secret they should use Gossip over Tor – I recommend using QubesOS do to this. But you could use Whonix or even Tails. Don’t just do it on your normal OS, because on a plain OS sometimes data leaks around Tor (things like DNS lookups). Gossip supports using native TLS certificates so you can configure trust for .onion sites. Gossip provides options to support privacy usage such as not loading avatars, not loading images, not necessarily sharing who you follow, etc.
Gossip v0.9.0 System Requirements
- Operating System: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7
How to Download and Install Gossip v0.9.0
- Click on the download button(s) below and finish downloading the required files. This might take from a few minutes to a few hours, depending on your download speed.
- Extract the downloaded files. If you don’t know how to extract, see this article. The password to extract will always be: www.mysoftwarefree.com
- Run gossip.0.9.0.msi and install the software.
- You now have the full version of Gossip v0.9.0 installed on your PC.
Required files
Password: www.mysoftwarefree.com