Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility

Re:Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility by natch on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:18AM (#7399306)

Being closed source makes this is highly suspect at the outset.

From my perspective it could be a trojan horse, even if the author claims otherwise all day long.

Bottom line, its security cannot be verified, so this might as well be considered dead in the water as far as being a viable tool for security.

Furthermore even if it was real, using it would limit your communication to people who are running Windows...

Simple fix for all this: release it as an open source project.

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Re:Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility by tudborg on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:37AM (#7399513)

wat.

https://textshredder.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest ?

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Re:Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility by natch on Saturday March 15, 2014 @12:45AM (#7403562)

Can this be compiled with an open source compiler? If not, I wouldn't trust the results of any build.

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Re:Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility by cachemeifyoucan on Friday March 14, 2014 @11:38AM (#7399517)

As far as I can tell it is open source.

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Re:Text Shredder: Peer-to-peer message-based encryption utility by lucb1e on Friday March 14, 2014 @12:13PM (#7399796)

It wasn't immediately obvious to me as well, but it is definitely open source like other comments said already. See the "Source Code" button in the top menu.

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