Difference between revisions of "SecureChatAnywhere"
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The way you are able to control the keys yourself without obfuscation in this tool is unique and a deliberate design decision. I want you, the user, to have full control, this comes at the price of leaving you in charge of handling the keys in a secure manner, not the program. Think carefully when you decide to share a cryptographic key with someone. Ask yourself: Who could potentially see the key besides the person I want to share it with? Security like this is hard to get right, it's easy to do mistakes which compromises the key, but it's even worse when you have no control of the keys at all, which is true for most of the current chat/message systems online. | The way you are able to control the keys yourself without obfuscation in this tool is unique and a deliberate design decision. I want you, the user, to have full control, this comes at the price of leaving you in charge of handling the keys in a secure manner, not the program. Think carefully when you decide to share a cryptographic key with someone. Ask yourself: Who could potentially see the key besides the person I want to share it with? Security like this is hard to get right, it's easy to do mistakes which compromises the key, but it's even worse when you have no control of the keys at all, which is true for most of the current chat/message systems online. | ||
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The GUI layout is designed as follows; all plaintext (decrypted) data is handled in the left pane window, the ciphertext (encrypted) data is handled in the right pane window. The lower pane is the log window, all actions will be logged here including the plaintext and ciphertext generated. Note that this is not logged to file, when quitting program any information in the log window will be lost. | The GUI layout is designed as follows; all plaintext (decrypted) data is handled in the left pane window, the ciphertext (encrypted) data is handled in the right pane window. The lower pane is the log window, all actions will be logged here including the plaintext and ciphertext generated. Note that this is not logged to file, when quitting program any information in the log window will be lost. | ||
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<<- Clear - Clears the left pane with plaintext.<br /> | <<- Clear - Clears the left pane with plaintext.<br /> | ||
Clear ->> - Clears the right pane with ciphertext.<br /> | Clear ->> - Clears the right pane with ciphertext.<br /> | ||
| − | + | "Key selector" - When clicked or held, this button lets you select the key used when encrypting and decrypting.<br /> | |
[ ] Copy to clipboard - When selected output is copied to clipboard. | [ ] Copy to clipboard - When selected output is copied to clipboard. | ||
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If you want to add major changes to the program which alters the goal of the entire project then it's better if you fork the repository, and maintain the fork yourself. One of the project goals is to provide a lightweight program with no dependencies besides native JRE, so keep that in mind. | If you want to add major changes to the program which alters the goal of the entire project then it's better if you fork the repository, and maintain the fork yourself. One of the project goals is to provide a lightweight program with no dependencies besides native JRE, so keep that in mind. | ||
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| + | |Homepage URL=https://github.com/modrobert/SecureChatAnywhere | ||
| + | |Is High Priority Project=No | ||
| + | |Documentation note= | ||
|Decommissioned or Obsolete=No | |Decommissioned or Obsolete=No | ||
|Donate=https://paypal.me/modrobert | |Donate=https://paypal.me/modrobert | ||
Revision as of 07:52, 2 November 2018
SecureChatAnywhere
https://github.com/modrobert/SecureChatAnywhere
Encrypts/decrypts chat messages with AES-128/CBC.
SecureChatAnywhere is a lightweight program written in Java with the purpose of making it easy to encrypt and decrypt any kind of text messages using AES-128/CBC symmetric encryption. The graphical user interface (GUI) is designed as a convenient "copy & paste tool" for computers to manage encryption and decryption stand-alone, in other words without relying on any kind of external communication.
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| Robert (Modrobert) | Developer |
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| Required to use | Java (JRE) |
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