Interception

[napamick]

Can't someone theoretically intercept the link along the way through
the net and read it before the recipient gets it?
I realize that the recipient wouldn't then be able to read it, but the
interceptor might not care, particularly if the recipient didn't even
know it was coming.

[LanceHaverkamp]

If they're fast enough, or if the real recipient is slow at getting
their message, yes.
That's why the truly paranoid would use encryption, like OpenPGP
before sending the message.

FireGPG (a firefox plugin) is perfect for this, but right now Privnote
is not passing messages completely unaltered; so PGP is not
supported..

See bug report here:
http://groups.google.com/group/privnote-support/browse_thread/thread/50c39eba2f8c75d9?hl=en#

[Pablo Hoffman]

napamick: if someone else gets the note link he/she could read the
messages, but the sender of the note could always ask the recipient if
he/she received it. If the recipient didnt receive it then you know it
was compromised and can take proper measures.

Lance: there is also a plan to implement 100% client-side encryption
using Javascript and these libraries for hashing and encryption:

AES encryption: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/aes.html
SHA1 hashing: http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/sha1.html

Pablo.

On Oct 25, 1:55 pm, LanceHaverkamp <La...@thehaverkamps.net> wrote:
> If they're fast enough, or if the real recipient is slow at getting
> their message, yes.
> That's why the truly paranoid would use encryption, like OpenPGP
> before sending the message.
>
> FireGPG (a firefox plugin) is perfect for this, but right now Privnote
> is not passing messages completely unaltered; so PGP is not
> supported..
>

> See bug report here:http://groups.google.com/group/privnote-support/browse_thread/thread/...