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Enhancement Request: Stolen USB drive risk #42

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Suppose my USB stick that contains TorChat falls into the wrong hands. The 
thief could contact all of my contacts pretending to be me.

I would like to see a feature that allows one to encrypt and lock ALL OF 
TorChat using a passphrase, and also erases internally all trace of 
deleted contacts and contact information. 

AxCrypt and TrueCrypt code may be of use here.

Thanks. TorChat is a great idea.

Bandy

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hazem.bi...@gmail.com on 6 Dec 2008 at 9:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
To clarify why this feature in needed, TrueCrypt and every other so-
called "portable" encryption container programs require me to have admin access 
to 
the system I happen to be using. So, it defeats the purpose of using TrueCrypt 
with 
TorChat on a public machine. Either TrueCrypt becomes truely portable, or 
Torchat 
should build-in the ability to encrypt and lock the user ID and key, and 
contacts' 
info.

Original comment by hazem.bi...@gmail.com on 8 Dec 2008 at 4:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
you only need some encryption for keypair to have this working... i think that 
there
are some basic crypto functions or modules in python...

TrueCrypt way is not good and too much robust, big and it can damage the easy of
instalation/use... and you will also need admin access to create virtual 
drives...

Original comment by harv...@gmail.com on 11 Feb 2009 at 1:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
i will set this to wontfix for now, since I do not see an easy way to have 
tor.exe operate on the (temporarily) decrypted files. This would involve the 
need for a temporary RAM-disk and this is beyond the scope of this (simple) 
project. Maybe a new and more advanced implementation or fork of TorChat can 
address this. AFAIK TrueCypt also has a "traveler mode" that does not need root 
and should not be so difficult to use.

Original comment by prof7...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 5:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Issue 44 has been merged into this issue.

Original comment by prof7...@gmail.com on 20 Dec 2010 at 6:00