THC-Yaotp is a one-time pad implementation tool for highly paranoid geeks. It offers increased security but is not practical for most users.
THC-Yaotp is a software tool that implements one-time pads, which is an encryption system useful for those who prioritize security. The software provides features to ensure this security, some of which include real random number generation by audio sampling and hashing, and automatic sanity check of random data using statistic values such as mean, deviation and entropy.
THC Yaotp also has a key management feature that enforces one-time usage and irreproducible key destruction, similar to secure-delete, and obligatory message compression, checksumming, uuencoding, and PGP-like ASCII output. The software is designed for the true security fanatic with no whistles and bells, and is even said to be NSA-resistant.
To give an example message, the software allows users to begin a message using “BEGIN YAOTP MSG” and end it with “END YAOTP MSG”. It even provides a corresponding test.key file with a total key size of 8192 to decrypt the message. The key label is “Test Key”, and the creation time is the 5th of August, 2004, at 16:14:55.
To decrypt the above message, users can easily download the key and this page and execute Yaotp with specific options. The instructions are as follows:
$ wget www.thc.org/thc-yaotp/test.key
$ wget www.thc.org/thc-yaotp/index.html
$ cat index.html | yaotp -k test.key -d -v.
Overall, THC-Yaotp is a great software tool for those who value secure encryption and want to ensure their data is safe.
THC Yaotp also has a key management feature that enforces one-time usage and irreproducible key destruction, similar to secure-delete, and obligatory message compression, checksumming, uuencoding, and PGP-like ASCII output. The software is designed for the true security fanatic with no whistles and bells, and is even said to be NSA-resistant.
To give an example message, the software allows users to begin a message using “BEGIN YAOTP MSG” and end it with “END YAOTP MSG”. It even provides a corresponding test.key file with a total key size of 8192 to decrypt the message. The key label is “Test Key”, and the creation time is the 5th of August, 2004, at 16:14:55.
To decrypt the above message, users can easily download the key and this page and execute Yaotp with specific options. The instructions are as follows:
$ wget www.thc.org/thc-yaotp/test.key
$ wget www.thc.org/thc-yaotp/index.html
$ cat index.html | yaotp -k test.key -d -v.
Overall, THC-Yaotp is a great software tool for those who value secure encryption and want to ensure their data is safe.
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