My name is Lanedirt and I’m a software developer with over 15 years of experience and a privacy enthusiast. Since 2013, I've been running a public temporary email service (https://spamok.com), but I wanted to build something more privacy-centric and fully self-hostable. That's why I've spent the last year developing AliasVault from scratch. The idea behind AliasVault is simple: create unique, random identities for every website, protecting your privacy and reducing online tracking and profiling.
Key Features:
- Unique identities & passwords: Generate individual aliases and strong passwords for every site.
- Built-in email server: Create email aliases with your own domains, receive and read emails directly in AliasVault—no external dependencies.
- Zero-knowledge encryption: All data encrypted locally (using Argon2Id and AES-256-GCM); your master password never leaves your device.
- Flexible installation: Docker-based self-hosting, supports Linux VMs and ARM devices (like Raspberry Pi).
- Fully Open-source: Free to use, audit, modify, under the MIT license.
I've just released v0.14.0, which adds:
- Built-in support for Google Authenticator-compatible TOTP code generation.
- Official browser extensions now approved and live in Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari (macOS), and Brave app stores for easy access to your credentials, email aliases and allows for one-click alias creation.
Try the official supported cloud version: https://aliasvault.net
Github and quick self install guide: https://github.com/lanedirt/AliasVault
Full documentation including architecture: https://docs.aliasvault.net
I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions, happy to answer any questions! Thanks for checking out AliasVault, I appreciate it a lot! :-)
Apart from that - the idea of the project is just pure fire, I would love very much to have thousands of different personas for the nasty tracking huge corporations that entangled the internet.
The official cloud hosted variant currently offers unlimited *@aliasvault.net addresses. However I’ll be adding more domains as time goes on as certain companies don’t always like the idea of aliases and tend to start blacklisting.
The self-hosted variant allows you to attach as many of your own domains that you want, and then you can choose which domain you want to generate an alias with from the GUI.
The ability to connect your own private domains to the cloud hosted variant is also on the roadmap and will be added in the coming 2-3 weeks. This will allow you to move from/to different services without losing access to your email aliases.