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How was IronChat compromised?
https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/police-crack-encrypted-chat-service-ironchat-and-read-258000-messages-from-suspected-criminals-20530.html
Dutch police have revealed that they wer… Continue reading How was IronChat compromised?
I’m currently in my third year at university and have to build my final year project. I have decided to go with implementing an encrypted messaging server. I think that XMPP would be the best protocol and was hoping I could g… Continue reading E2E Encryption With XMPP?
A vulnerability in “libotr,” the C code implementation of the Off-the-Record (OTR) protocol that is used in many secure instant messengers such as ChatSecure, Pidgin, Adium and Kopete, could be exploited by attackers to crash an app using libotr or execute remote code on the user’s machine. “An attacker could execute his own code inside the instant messaging application. He could hack the victims computer using this or alternatively just steal the encryption keys and … More → Continue reading Critical bug in libotr could open users of ChatSecure, Adium, Pidgin to compromise
Axolotl Ratchet is used by the Signal messenger (formerly known as TextSecure) and an enhanced version of OTR in a way to make it suitable for mobile applications, which has the probability to encrypt messages without both pa… Continue reading Would Axolotl Ratchet protocol be suitable for encrypting email communication?