[OTR-users] History Encryption

Markus Krainz ldm at gmx.at
Wed Jul 15 18:10:36 EDT 2009


Brian Morrison wrote:
> Tim Clark wrote:
>   
>>>> (i understand this might be off topic for this list) If not, any suggestions on how to encrypt chat history in pidgin?
>>>>         
>>> If you want the security and plausible deniability aspects of Pidgin
>>> then keeping a log of what was said is not a great solution.
>>>
>>> If you accept that the deniability would be lost then you can protect
>>> the logs using an encryption program such as GnuPG.
>>>       
>> unless i store the chat history inside a truecrypt volume, which preserves plausible deniability. but thats really an overkill for my needs.
>>     
>
> Well actually you want to store the history in a truecrypt volume inside
> another truecrypt volume, and I would argue to do it because you can!
>
> If everyone did something of that nature, snooping would become a thing
> of the past....
>
>   
Not quite. That's what hardware keyloggers are for.
To further improve security you can use a notebook with TPM and secure
your bootloader and BIOS with it.
Never let your notebook out of sight and do not use an external keyboard.



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