Contacts

Contacts is your personal address book inside Databeamer. Adding someone is one-sided: they are not notified and do not need to accept.

Adding a contact #

Open Contacts and choose Add contact. You can search Public Profiles (people who chose to be discoverable) and Organization members (people in your organisations). Pick the person to add them.

Private notes #

Each contact has an Only for you section with a Nickname, Tags and Notes. These are for your eyes only; the contact never sees them.

Security detailsWhat is this?

Your contact list is one blob encrypted with ChaCha20-Poly1305 under your identity key; nicknames, tags and notes exist only inside it. The server sees that the blob changed, not what is in it.

From a contact you can start a Message, a Secure Mail or a Transfer straight away.

Checking identities #

Databeamer has no codes to compare by hand. Instead, whenever you select a person as a recipient, a Confirm current identity panel shows:

• their organisation memberships,
• groups you have in common,
• how long they have been a member,
• an Identity verified by Databeamer badge, if they have one.

People can also add self-declared labels to their profile. Those are what they say about themselves and are not checked by anyone.

Security detailsWhat is this?

The Identity verified by Databeamer badge is granted by Databeamer staff after a check and is cleared automatically when a checked profile field changes. Public profile data (name, organisations, labels, shared groups, membership date) is plaintext on the server and shown only to users who are allowed to see it. Manual safety numbers are not offered.

Being found yourself #

By default other users cannot search for you. Turn on Public profile under Settings › Account to let other Databeamer users find you by name or email.

Removing a contact #

Removing a contact only edits your own list. They are not notified and nothing you shared with them changes.