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In the IT world, security is a crucial issue. It is supposed to guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of our data in both professional and private life.
The contents of our computers, messaging applications and even banking systems are secured using the industry standards. All this coding makes it hard to decrypt the protected information yet it is still possible to do.
Nowadays, world-class cryptologists agree on the fallibility of the most popular computer securities. So no, your data is not 100% secure when transiting through the different web services.
The working principle of these encryption systems is also one of their weaknesses. In short, their goal is to make the decrypting process as hard as possible but not impossible (depending on mathematical complexities). This principle is closely related to a compromise between the level of security wanted and the cost for setting up the system in terms of equipment.
In the future, quantum computers will easily break standard encryption systems while blindeagle will still be fail-proof.
The more an encryption algorithm is complex, the more likely it is that an internal error goes unnoticed.
The situation took place in 2014 when a serious vulnerability known as Heartbleed was disclosed in the OpenSSL cryptograhic software library.
Due to its excellent reputation in terms of security, the SSL/TLS protocol is massively used to secure your banking transactions, your online shopping or your conversations on social networks. Heartbleed affected half a million web services including some of the biggest IT companies such as Google, Yahoo! and a few Amazon services. It had been present for at least two years before being discovered and web giants immediately tried to sweep it under the rug to protect their image. Consequences of this flaw might come back and bite us if we are not careful...
Nowadays, you have no choice whether or not you share your private data. Actually, when you chat with your family, friends or colleagues, you automatically allow companies selling your private data to make a living off your moral and sometimes physical integrity.
That's where blindeagle comes in with a one-time pad (OTP) applied to the letter. The only unbreakable and fail-proof encryption system ever invented.