Redakt, blur your public messages

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Attention: Editor it is not a security tool but just a method to obfuscate your messages in public.

To prevent anyone from using this tool incorrectly, we have decided to place this important notice. Editor it is a very curious instrument and we are telling you about it mainly because we like it, as you well know, talk to you about projects new and curious even if it is not always clear what their daily use could be. The list of the tools most recommended by us for daily use can be found on list.lealternative.net!

What does Redakt do?

Editor allows you to publish encrypted and decipherable text easily with theextension available for both Brave/Chrome than for Firefox. Below we leave you an encrypted text which as you can see is completely incomprehensible.

U2FsdGVkX1/nZt/EXKR38o9kHXl/JMJNbbRVHk8G27bR6EV8O5bv3OtMc6fue2ZzhK8pt3ucb6An7s2pt+PtvHb6enxqZUpI16fGjpCF4bI=

If you install the extension you will be able to automatically see this message correctly or you can simply copy and paste it by pressing the button decrypt. Everything, including the encryption of any message you want to publish, happens locally ¹.

But what is it for?

As mentioned, it is absolutely not designed to chat anonymously and/or securely but is mainly designed to prevent your text from being read easily by anyone on the internet and above all from being indexed (and perhaps used by some AI). So the idea is to post encrypted content, perhaps on social media or on your blog, so that it is not easily classified and analyzed by automatic tools.

Sure, you definitely can teach a tool to also recognize these texts and perhaps even decipher them automatically but it seems like a rather complicated job to us, especially given the number of people who will use it Editor, which is unlikely to happen any time soon.

Furthermore, as you will have understood by now, anyone who has this application will be able to read your message do not use it for private things but only to obfuscate your public messages.

In future versions of Editor it seems that the possibility of inserting your own encryption key is being planned so as to make the message more secure and readable exclusively by those who have the key to read it ².

So what do you think of this tool? Do you plan to use it from time to time?

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1. No! The encryption/decryption is entirely done locally by your machine.[↩]
2. v.3: Encryption using key pairs (PGP)[↩]

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