We have apps wherein images sent to others self-destruct within a time frame, we have apps where images can be transmitted & stored in an encrypted form. Now we have an app where the image you really want to send, can be hidden behind another image.
The way Decoy works is by using password protection on your original photograph & then hiding it behind a decoy photo.
Yes, that’s this app Decoy’s main purpose. The idea, say the developers, is to educate people on how to send pictures safely, & provide some tools to make it very, very difficult for unintended audiences to see the real picture.
Team Decoy claims the iOS app makes it virtually impossible for your pictures to get stolen (unless your password is something silly like, “password”). &, unless of course, if the recipient choses to decides to leak your pictures on the Web. For that, Decoy has a separate section called ‘Safe Text’ tips to protect yourself in the event your pictures do get leaked.
Decoy, they claim, is safer than than storing images in a secret folder on your device. You also don’t need to hide the app. Most importantly, you don’t have to rely on someone else to keep your pictures safe, nor fear someone taking a snapshot of your screen. Stopping people from taking snapshots of your mobile screen, claims this team, is almost impossible, for, depsite all the technology in the world, someone could still take a picture of their phone with another camera. As all of us know, people take screenshots because they want to be able to look at a picture any time they want, rather than having it get deleted after 30 minutes or a few hours. With Decoy, as long as they know the password, they can view the picture at their convenience which means there is no reason to screenshot your original picture.
Decoy boasts of very strong encryption. It claims to use a combination of AES block cipher, & the SHA-256 hash function iterated 1,000 times, along with PBKDF2 to strengthen the password. Each image has a randomly generated initialization vector, along with a random salt.
Click here to download Decoy on your iOS device.
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