[OTR-users] History Encryption

Jean-Baptiste Zeller esurnir at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 19:46:55 EDT 2009


On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Markus Krainz <ldm at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> 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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Not to forget that nowadays snooping on keyboard wirelessly (like from
the next hotel room) seems to be a piece of cake according to the
latest research :).

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Jean-Baptiste Zeller



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