Sunday, October 16, 2011

A new privacy tool for social sites and email

Want to decide what privacy rights you have for yourself, instead of letting Facebook, Twitter or Google decide for you? Then this could be the app for you!

Available soon for download under (some version of) the GNU Public License, this app is powerful AND easy to use. Messages are broken into chunks which can even be posted on Twitter. Here is an example of its use:



The UI on the left opens up and you enter a passphrase used to generate encryption keys. Type your message into the Plain Text edit box and it will appear encrypted into Twitter-sized chunks in the Cypher Text box. These can be posted, either in one big chunk or in separate chunks under 140 characters in size.

Message recipients will need to know that passphrase; the message cannot be decoded without it, except possibly by the NSA or GCHQ.

Some features:
- Decryption code doesn't care in what order the message chunks are entered
- Decryption code puts a placeholder where chunks are missing
- Encryption is done with NIST standard algorithms

Drop me a line if you're interested...

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