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   Richard Heathfield to Gabx   
   Re: Nofuture-Buddy Web Interface at safe   
   06 Feb 25 13:43:24   
   
   XPost: alt.privacy.anon-server, sci.crypt   
   From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 06/02/2025 09:36, Gabx wrote:   
   > Nofuture is a web application to use with the browser.   
   >   
   > When in one tab you have a chat F4c3b00k, in the other tab there is nofuture.   
   >   
   > In the first tab, with your interlocutor you decide to have a secret   
   communication.   
   >   
   > In the second tab, the nofuture one, you and your interlocutor start a   
   session.   
   >   
   > This will produce a session code, which you will share with your   
   interlocutor and a pair of keys.   
   > Once you receive the session code from your interlocutor, both of you can   
   start pairing your sessions.   
   >   
   > This will allow both of you to encrypt and decrypt text.   
      
   And the key provider. Let's just hope he or she is trustworthy, eh?   
      
   > Text that you will copy and paste to and from the chat you are using.   
   >   
   > It is like a crypto text plugin not integrated into your mainstream chat.   
   >   
   > The keys are generated on our server and kept in ram.   
   > At the end of the session they will be deleted forever.   
      
   Honest, guv...   
      
   > For a new conversation you will have to generate a new session and therefore   
   new keys.   
   > In technical terms it is called ZeroTrust,   
      
   For something called ZeroTrust it seems to require a level of   
   trust best described as "gullible".   
      
   > I called it nofuture, at the end of the session nofuture decryption.   
   > The purpose is to leave encrypted conversations inside mainstream chats for   
   which the keys that generated them and that decrypt them no longer exist.   
      
   Except for people who keep copies.   
      
   > Nofuture is open for testing.   
   >   
   > I'd like to know user experiences to make it better.   
   >   
   > Share your experience here.   
      
   Diffie-Hellman for keys and AES for encryption.   
      
   --   
   Richard Heathfield   
   Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk   
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