[Tutor] looking for volunteers with testing simple python program

[Alexander]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Lukas Nemec <lu.nemec at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> I changed some simple python client/server chatroom recipe
> to include RSA keypair based encryption and signature verification
>
> because I'm sick of someone spying on my conversations on FB and similar.
>
> Here is the code:
>
>     https://github.com/lunemec/python-chat
>
> If anyone is interrested in trying the software - mostly bughunting and
> improvements
>
> please run these commands after downloading the source codes:
>
>     cd client
>     openssl genrsa -out your_cert_name.pem -des3 4096
>     openssl rsa -pubout -in yourt_cert_name.pem -passin
> pass:"yourpassword" -out your_chatroom_nick.pub
>
> ## After this step, please send me your_chatroom_nick.pub file, it should
> have the same name.pub as you want to use in the chatroom, otherwise we
> can't decrypt your messages
>
>     # if you don't have pycrypt, then sudo pip install pycrypto
>     python client.py your_chatroom_nick nemec.lu 3490 your_cert_name.pem
> yourpassword
>
> Now we should be able to chat :)
>
> Enjoy, and please don't kill me for writing here :)
>
> Lukas
>
>
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I guess this is for testing, but I have a question. If somebody sends you
their .pub file (email or otherwise over internet), and a villainous third
party intercepts that .pub file, will they be able to decrypt the data sent
over this program?
Thanks.



-- 
Alexander
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