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Maintaining privacy online seems almost impossible, but there are a tools that can minimise the chances of your personal, financial or business data falling into the wrong hands.
SeeCrypt's current app for Android and iOS supports encrypted voice calls and text messages over mobile networks and wi-fi. Like other apps, it only allows encrypted communications between devices installed with the app.
The South African company says its app uses "double layer, end-to-end, military-grade encryption software".
To establish trust between two users who wish to start an encrypted data transfer, SeeCrypt relies the exchange of public keys between devices. "Two different public-key systems (RSA and ECDSA/ECDH) are used for the key negotiation and authentication, and two different stream ciphers (AES in counter mode and RC4) are used for the data encryption," it explains.
The 'double layer' refers the two stream ciphers it employs, which is meant to keep data protected in the event that of the above mentioned algorithms is broken.
SeeCrypt plans on releasing a new version of the app called SC3, which will support group messaging and Outlook Calendar synchronisation.
The app is free to install, but costs $3 a month to use. The company plans on releasing a BB10 and Windows Phone version later this year.
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