No software installation is required for using this service. All encryption and decryption procedures are performed in any browser by JavaScript. So no matter if you use Chrome browser or Internet Explorer, you always can access a safe chat. Messages are encrypted with a standard RSA algorithm. The security of the RSA algorithm is proved by thousand researches and many years of usage.
When you enter the chat room, an RSA private and public keys are generated. Then you will see a link that you can send your partner by any other information channel. You can also exchange your public fingerprints to eliminate the change of the man-in-the-middle attack. As you see using the chat room is very easy, while your conversation is completely confidential. When messages are encrypted with the public key they can only be decrypted using the private key.
The bleeding edge technology of Socket.IO stack is used to provide users with the fast real-time conversations. Today this protocol is used very often for apps and plug-ins that are ready-to-use as our chat room.
There are more security goodies. One of them is idle timeout. If a person doesn’t write any message for 5 minutes, the chat disconnects and the screen is cleared. This is done to protect your personal data if you forget to close the chat. Also you can erase the conversation anytime by clicking the button "clear".
Though passwords and physical addresses are the type of confidential information you would normally expect to receive from non-secure email, this is the best time to change this practice.
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