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Places to do a private chat among friends? (Web) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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Not Matrix, it's glitchy. Not Element.io, web doesn't work on mobiles.

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[–] mrus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You and your friend should..

  • create and exchange a set of Age public keys
  • use them to encrypt a simple text file
  • bzip the encrypted file
  • convert the binary archive to base64
  • embed the base64 using Pixelknot into a photo downloaded from unsplash that contains a distinct object you both agreed on (eg a windmill)
  • upload the file to imgur

Now you both can privately chat with each other by monitoring imgur's latest uploads, downloading every image that contains a windmill, read the base64 string, convert it to its binary bzip form, unpack the encrypted file and decrypt it.