![]() ![]() J4:33 rolling “their own” crypto means it hasn’t gone through any of the vetting processes used to establish public trust in established crypto systems. I think that practical defences such as ‘secret chats’ with self-destructing messages serve a useful purpose for most people and correspondingly increases their security. The number of side channel attacks against mobiles is astonishing and, like Bruce says, “if the NSA want in, they’re in”. I know that Signal is open-source (WhatsApp isn’t) but ultimately we have to place our trust somewhere. That said we can’t really trust WhatsApp (which uses the axolotl ratchet) nor Signal because there’s no easy way to decompile the distributed app. I don’t know why (they say for reasons of speed, reliability and large file transfer) they didn’t implement the axolotl (signal) ratchet or some other form of tried-and-tested cryptographic protocol but the app itself has some nice features and my use scenario doesn’t require me to defend myself against government actors (although extra protection is always nice). I’ll have a read through the Master’s Thesis. So amongst other nonsense we got Tony Blair PM’s dodgy dossiers, not what they should have listened to which was from people realy on the ground such as Hans Blix…īut hey, no real harm done, ISIS are keeping the oil flowing to China… Oh and so many others who would sing any old song for US Dollars, in fact a little update on an old saying gives “He who pays the piper, gets to hear what they want to hear”. ![]() ![]() By Israel’s over the ME with Yellow Cake, and others like the “in waiting” Iraqi National Congress, oh and a diplomats daughter telling of Iraqi troops flinging babies out of incubators so the equipment could be shipped back to Iraqi (turns out she was nowhere close at the time). They became overly reliant on others for HumInt, and “boots on the ground intel”. If you read the last sentence again and think back, the US got into the same SigInt / Elint mess back in the days of the U2, and they’ve never realy been out of it since. In fact, old-school tradecraft may turn out to be the Achilles’ heel for security services as they’ve become heavily reliant on signal intelligence to function. They worked just fine pre-internet and they can still work. There’s definitely something to be said for old-school methods. There is an interesting paragraph in the article by Bill Blunden you link to, Here their explanation about how they compare to the rest of the applications addressed above. Cybersecurity Expert John McAfee even endorses RakEM.Also, unlike the other “secure messaging applications” who use standard 256 AES encryption with their chats, RakEM uses a self mutating encryption key with a length that ranges from 2048 to 4096 bits.It goes straight from device to device no server in the middle. RakEM uses an end-to-end transport protocol therefore no government body or hacker can intercept it’s communication.I am not comparing each applications UI but merely their secure-messaging protocols.One called RakEM the commercial one, and the other called SecureHaze. – Raketu, the company, has a commercial and a business platform. Nobody will switch to Tox when the audio/video quality is not at least 90% of what you get with Skype.I am not a cyber security expert by any means, however I’ve done a good amount of research into all these messaging applications secure-messaging protocols and none truly compare to one called RakEM. I can use Skype even with a GPRS/EDGE connection and it works (yes, audio is bad BUT still understand able). That is what makes Skype calls so much better under non-perfect (real world) condition. Working adaptive bit rate is the killer feature of Skype over SIP. Tox/qTox is not using any adaptive audio/video bit rate. I found out why tox audio quality is so bad compared to Skype. I monitor my bandwidth usage in real time I know what's available. But my (domestic, broadband broadband ) voice calls are disappointing. I REALLY want use Tox (qTox/uTox) as my main VoIP program and switch all my peers to it. I saw a lot of improvements over this time. I am a VoIP (Skype, SIP, flash) user since more than 11 years (starting with the first Skype release). ![]()
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