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Re:Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat cr... by DoritosMan on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:50PM (#18402292)
You wouldn't be rolling your own crypto? You could use standard crypto but with your own app/UI to make the crypto easy to use.
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Re:Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat cr... by United857 on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:59PM (#18402367)
Then you have to worry about security from side channel attacks. Even things like the iOS or Android task-switcher UI caching screenshots of your app can be vectors.
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Re:Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat cr... by DoritosMan on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:02PM (#18402384)
Oh yeah, making an app that is easy to use and still secure is definitely not easy. But at least you would know how you implemented the encryption on it.
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Re:Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat cr... by jstanley on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @03:51PM (#18402308)
And why would "your own" app be easier to use than somebody else's?
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Re:Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat cr... by DoritosMan on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @04:00PM (#18402373)
I didn't mean "your own" app would be easier to use, I meant the crypto would be easier to use via an app instead of using it through the command line.
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