The NSA has worked to weaken voice encryption in 4G standards so why not use a SIP phone and the encrypted ZRTP protocol for VoIP instead. Mailvelope and My Mail Crypt for Gmail work in Chrome and ChromeOS too (even the ARM version of ChromeOS) making email encryption easy for someone used to accessing their email through a web browser. On the desktop there is the Enigmail plug-in for the fat-client Mozilla Thunderbird and a number of plug-ins for Chrome that do the encryption in-browser.
BITMESSAGE NSA ANDROID
Replicant is an attempt to create a fully open source Android fork that can be verified to be secure, unlike official Android in which we simply have to trust Google and all the chipset vendors who supply the drivers.
BITMESSAGE NSA DRIVERS
Another Android port of GPG by the Guardian Project is in a basic beta state – if you can imagine using a command line app on an Android phone, that is pretty much how basic it is.īut how trustworthy is the core Android OS? Today chipset vendors keep many of their drivers closed and proprietary and it is conceivable that backdoors exist within them.
BITMESSAGE NSA UPDATE
The Android Privacy Guard, an Android port of GPG, has just received its first update in almost three years after being practically abandoned. Post Snowden, there has been a new flurry of activity. The private key can be used to decrypt messages and to sign messages.Ī public key can be published in a public phone book and security of the messages can still be maintained – though verifying the identity of the publisher of the key is another matter. The public key can be posted in public and can only be used to encrypt messages to the private key holder or verify the private key holder’s signature. They are used to sign everything from emails to software packages as well as for encryption. Pretty Good Privacy and its open source counterpart the Gnu Privacy Guard is a widely used standard in public key encryption. Expecting privacy and taking steps to ensure privacy is not a crime yet, depending on where you live. While this may allow these companies to enter and operate under oppressive regimes, it also opens up your private messages to anyone in the middle from telco to carrier. Remember when BlackBerry Messaging was secure? When it was denied access to countries in the middle east and India because it could not be intercepted? RIM had to comply and allow access by authorities and undermine the entire secure messaging model, leaving it no better than Whatsapp (with very weak encryption) and LINE ( with no encryption). From what was once the domain of hard-core crypto-nuts and the tinfoil hat brigade today there are many encrypted communications channels out there that are verging on being user-friendly. This has resulted in a steady stream of of privacy-enhancing applications out there to keep what we are communicating and whom we are communicating with safe from prying eyes. Or at least, it has received a breath of fresh air in the form of the wake-up call from Edward Snowden’s leaks. This article was authored by Don Sambandaraksa, and was originally posted on.
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