Self Destruct messages

[Common]

Message software thats encrypted and then self destructs after its read, it cant be screen capture, or forwarded or saved. Interesting

Check it out at the authors site

https://getconfide.com/

[Adelaide]

There is a thumb drive that only lets you enter a password incorrectly 3 times before erasing all data that I really, really want. Forget the name of the company. It's about $300, if I remember right. I put it on my Christmas list but my family thought it was weird.

Been fooling around a bit with Python. It's meant for encryption but it turns out it will be super handy if I ever need to cheat in a math class. That program is insane. At any rate, I got bored around Christmas and decided to learn about cryptography.


Edit: Company is Ironkey.

[midcan5]

Sure thing. "Communicate digitally with the same level of privacy and security as the spoken word." I may download it but on a test PC and see if it can really prevent screen captures, that would only work if it touched your OS and that ain't a good thing. But as for the quote I'm with Roland Barthes on that one, spoken words cannot be erased. And email messages are stored in multiple places and often replicated for backup etc. But I think I saw this years ago in the back of a comic book? Ink that disappeared LOL.

[Cthulhu]

There is a thumb drive that only lets you enter a password incorrectly 3 times before erasing all data that I really, really want. Forget the name of the company. It's about $300, if I remember right. I put it on my Christmas list but my family thought it was weird.

Been fooling around a bit with Python. It's meant for encryption but it turns out it will be super handy if I ever need to cheat in a math class. That program is insane. At any rate, I got bored around Christmas and decided to learn about cryptography.


Edit: Company is Ironkey.

@Adelaide

Learn to use Linux and the program one-time.

And yes cryptography is something everybody should learn about and I applaud you doing so.

But if you're serious about it. I'm working on a one time pad grid I could use some assistance on. As well as a custom vigenerre cipher alphabet.

Fear profits a man nothing.

[resister]

If Hillary had this she may have won, instead her aides relied on 4 pound sledgehammers!

[Captain Obvious]

We need thread destruct messages

[AZ Jim]

This sounds like "Mission Impossible" in the 60's. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060009/

[OGIS]

@Adelaide

Learn to use Linux and the program one-time.

And yes cryptography is something everybody should learn about and I applaud you doing so.

But if you're serious about it. I'm working on a one time pad grid I could use some assistance on. As well as a custom vigenerre cipher alphabet.

Fear profits a man nothing.

Just for chits and giggles, I once put together a crypto package with an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. I thought it was rather neat: the program would randomly create between 20 and 40 characters of code, then switch to another replacement code set (there were 100 multiple automatic and pseudo-random code sets, generated on the fly). All based on the page/line number of a random book that both sender and recipient would have. The actual hard work of translation was all done by the program.

I sent a sample of code to a gal I knew who worked at NSA in their accounting area, and she forwarded it to the spooks. A month or so later she called to tell me that the the code people were slightly impressed, but that it took them just a week to crack it. She would not say how they did it, of course.

(This is apparently "a thing." The NSA has a couple or three people whose only jobs are to test encryption schemes sent to them by nerds like me.)

So, yeah, I'm probably on a list somewhere....

[Cthulhu]

Just for chits and giggles, I once put together a crypto package with an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. I thought it was rather neat: the program would randomly create between 20 and 40 characters of code, then switch to another replacement code set (there were 100 multiple automatic and pseudo-random code sets, generated on the fly). All based on the page/line number of a random book that both sender and recipient would have. The actual hard work of translation was all done by the program.

I sent a sample of code to a gal I knew who worked at NSA in their accounting area, and she forwarded it to the spooks. A month or so later she called to tell me that the the code people were slightly impressed, but that it took them just a week to crack it. She would not say how they did it, of course.

(This is apparently "a thing." The NSA has a couple or three people whose only jobs are to test encryption schemes sent to them by nerds like me.)

So, yeah, I'm probably on a list somewhere....

The reason it was cracked is because of psuedo random info.

Make it true random and a priority built vigenerre or OTP and they will waste a lot of computing power for nothing.

Fear profits a man nothing.