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"ONLY you and your partners, who know the password, can access the secure messages"

Maybe I missed something, but how exactly is this "secure"? I'm assuming ccPing will still store these messages in a database which will be vulnerable to attack.

I mean, is this going through the TOR network or something?

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The message will be encrypted on the client side (iphone , android or PC ) , so the message sent over the network are already encrypted using the password provided by the user. So only when the user type in the correct password then he can decrypted it. If he forgot the password , so sad, the message cannot be read anymore.

Could you go into more technical detail? How are the messages encrypted? I mean, is it subject to a brute force?

Given way the password is distributed, I doubt the encryption is salted.

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