[APP] Garble (Send Private Messages) V4.0 (24/01/2020)
Updated 24/01/2020
Want to send private messages to family and friends? Don't want governments watching what you're saying? Then Garble is for you
Garble encrypts a string with a passcode of your choice, and then encodes the encrypted string with base64. The only way someone can decrypt it, is by using this app and and knowing the pass phrase you used.
Usage is very simple - decide upon a pass phrase with the person your going to be sending the message to before using
1) Enter some text
2) Type a pass phrase (or select a person from the 'Lock' icon)
3) Garble it
4) Share it
You can grab it from here
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minooch.garble
or support me and buy the paid version - just removes the please buy link, Ads have been completely removed.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minooch.garble_premium
If you want any improvements - please let me know
Any Feedback?
Downloading. Will test and report.
Thanks
Gonna try it.
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Feedback
Perfectly working. No issues.
But a suggestion:
Save passwords in profiles. Like person A with password xxx, person B with password aaa
pdppdp said:
Feedback
Perfectly working. No issues.
But a suggestion:
Save passwords in profiles. Like person A with password xxx, person B with password aaa
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Thanks to all for the feedback.
I have a look at saving the passwords against people's names - would make it much easier to remember. Thanks
Another suggestion:
Can you add a string to the code that recognizes that text is garbled with your app and automatically opens app and copy text to garble if I click on the text. I just have to type in the passphrase or choose it from a list (suggest in previous post).
pdppdp said:
Another suggestion:
Can you add a string to the code that recognizes that text is garbled with your app and automatically opens app and copy text to garble if I click on the text. I just have to type in the passphrase or choose it from a list (suggest in previous post).
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That's a great idea - Will have a look on how to implement that.
Thanks
pdppdp said:
Another suggestion:
Can you add a string to the code that recognizes that text is garbled with your app and automatically opens app and copy text to garble if I click on the text. I just have to type in the passphrase or choose it from a list (suggest in previous post).
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That's now implemented & I believe it's working quite well - saving pass phrases is next
Cheers
Working. Thx
Yes Working. Thanks
pdppdp said:
Feedback
Perfectly working. No issues.
But a suggestion:
Save passwords in profiles. Like person A with password xxx, person B with password aaa
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I've managed to get time to add this yesterday & it appears to be fully functional.
Although......
I can't update the app on the market because Admob banned me (no idea why & they won't say), so I've gone to a new ad provider & am waiting for approval. Hopefully I can release it soon
Version 2
Added the ability to save pass phrases by people's name - Click the KEY icon to use
On an existing item, a normal press will select & place the pass phrase on the main page. A long press will ask if you want to remove the item.
Also cleared the input field after Garble/unGarble
downloading!!!!
Works nice and I feel secure sending sensitive messages with this, but could you add built-in SMS abilities? I don't mind sharing with my SMS app, but the wifey won't use this app because she feels that sharing with the SMS app takes too long and is a pain in her ass.
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Brilliant Idea!
Would test it but im the only android in my house and only a few mates have androids and they wont bother downloading the app for me to test it
be great if you could implement this kind of security into the built in sms app in some way that makes it simple to use without the person on other end having to be on android for it to work or having to input much if blackberry users can have this sort of security with not having to do anything be cool if we could do same
This is really cool! but I wish I had a secure way to tell them the password! with wiretaps and all everywhere... -paranoid-
nerdtaco said:
Works nice and I feel secure sending sensitive messages with this, but could you add built-in SMS abilities? I don't mind sharing with my SMS app, but the wifey won't use this app because she feels that sharing with the SMS app takes too long and is a pain in her ass.
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I will have a look when I get some spare time & see the cleanest way to implement it
Thing O Doom said:
This is really cool! but I wish I had a secure way to tell them the password! with wiretaps and all everywhere... -paranoid-
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I've heard telepathy works quite well
& Thanks to everyone
PGP SMS
PGP SMS lite
- write and get secure messages with pgp encryption
- totaly over sms
- public-key infrastructure (PKI)
If you want to share sensitive data with someone, others should not be able to spy the data. To reach this goal we created this app.
With this app, an attacker, who probably intercepted the sms to get its content, cannot get any information from the content because the message is encrypted.
Functionality:
A Keypair is created.
With the Public Key you encrypt a message.
With the Private Key you decrypt an encrypted message.
You send your Public Key to the person which wants to send you an encrypted message. The person encrypts the message with your Public Key and sends the encrypted Message to you. ONLY YOU can decrypt the encrypted Message with your Private Key.
Instruction to send encrypted messages:
- your friend shares you his public key
- now you can send him an encrypted message
Instruction to get encrypted messages
- you share your public key to the person which wants to send you an encrypted message.
If you have suggestions, feel free to contact us.
coming features:
- choose keysize
- revoke old shared public key
keywords: privacy, encryption, private, public, keys, secure, sms, pgp, gpg, message, crypted, encrypted, secret, encoded, decoded.
Thanks for sharing
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acerkumar said:
Thanks for sharing
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No Problem
So are you actually using PGP for the backend encryption? Or are you just using the name because it's popular?
Yes, sure.
PGP for transmitting the messages encrypted over the air to another device and then decrypting it... like in the white "how does it work"-picture mentioned above.
PGP just for the name, would be a strange
jurtsche said:
Yes, sure, Public Private Key infrastructure.
PGP for transmitting the messages encrypted over the air to another device and then decrypting it.
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OK, the question I actually asked, which you seem to either not understand or have intentionally not answered, is whether you're actually using PGP technology for the message encryption and transmission. PGP isn't a generic term for "public key infrastructure", it's a specific technology (and, coincidentally, PGP is also a copyrighted/trademarked word that's owned by Symantec).
History of PGP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
Now, there IS an OpenPGP standard, RFC 4880, but you've made no indication in your post (which appears to just be copypasta from your market description) that you're following this RFC, either.
devlogic said:
OK, the question I actually asked, which you seem to either not understand or have intentionally not answered, is whether you're actually using PGP technology for the message encryption and transmission. PGP isn't a generic term for "public key infrastructure", it's a specific technology (and, coincidentally, PGP is also a copyrighted/trademarked word that's owned by Symantec).
History of PGP
Now, there IS an OpenPGP standard, RFC 4880, but you've made no indication in your post (which appears to just be copypasta from your market description) that you're following this RFC, either.
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some details...
yes, we used this rfc from openpgp as "pattern".
but we changed and, imho, improved some things for not only the reason of maximum sms size.
So, if you want, the word PGP is inaccurate and overall chosen, but it should just say, what the programm is about.
I don't know, which expression we could use instead, i think Pretty Good Privacy is a nice name, and at least some people know what openPGP means.
It works similar too... on the mathematical problem - factorization of big numbers.
but... the detail how the encrypting sequence exactly works, is anyway not interesting for an ordinary user.
It's safe and mathematically there is no effective way to break the encryption, with the current keysize.
i hope i could give you some satisfying information.
greetings
I was alerted to this app and was asked to write a review about it.
I did. I've been asked to paste it in this thread.
Here it is. Your app is terrible dude.
Hacre said:
I was alerted to this app and was asked to write a review about it.
I did. I've been asked to paste it in this thread.
Here it is. Your app is terrible dude.
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thanks for your review.
the design will surely be improved ^^
i shoud study design instead of informatics....
but the functionality should work perfect, in lite too... you wrote:
Let me explain. I managed to successfully add my friend's PGP public key to the app so I could send him an encrypted text, however we soon discoverd that this was some kind of bizarre fluke. Try as we might, we could absolutely not get my public PGP key into my friend's copy of PGP SMS Lite, rendering him completely incapable of replying to the message I'd been able to send him via a stroke of fortune thus that I feel if I play half a line of numbers on the lottery I'll win anyway.
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I discovered that the lite version don't work correctly if you have 3rd party sms apps - like go sms pro.
the priority of incoming sms is in the lite version lower than in pro version...
and if you have for example go sms pro, pgp sms doesnt work correctly, because "go sms pro" intercepts the sms flow.
i surely will fix this in lite version.
there is a spam protection in requesting keys. if the same number requests a public key in less than 1 hour, just the text of the request comes through - i will change this too in a text like "number xy has already requested the public key in the last hour, answering cancel'd"
if you are interested in testing\reviewing the paid version for free, let me know.
jurtsche said:
thanks for your review.
the design will surely be improved ^^
i shoud study design instead of informatics....
but the functionality should work perfect, in lite too... you wrote:
I discovered that the lite version don't work correctly if you have 3rd party sms apps - like go sms pro.
the priority of incoming sms is in the lite version lower than in pro version...
and if you have for example go sms pro, pgp sms doesnt work correctly, because "go sms pro" intercepts the sms flow.
i surely will fix this in lite version.
there is a spam protection in requesting keys. if the same number requests a public key in less than 1 hour, just the text of the request comes through - i will change this too in a text like "number xy has already requested the public key in the last hour, answering cancel'd"
if you are interested in testing\reviewing the paid version for free, let me know.
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Unless you count all non AOSP SMS apps as "3rd party", the only SMS app I have installed is what came with Touchwiz.
edit: I'll gladly review the paid version, amateur journalism is a hobby of mine after all, but don't expect it to be a resounding recommendation if the paid version works flawlessly while the "lite" version remains a pile of poo.
Hacre said:
Unless you count all non AOSP SMS apps as "3rd party", the only SMS app I have installed is what came with Touchwiz.
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The problem is not at you, it seems to be at your friends phone.
Because you said, you got his key without problems.
jurtsche said:
The problem is not at you, it seems to be at your friends phone.
Because you said, you got his key without problems.
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Well, I am in the same boat as Hacre. I too am using stock SMS app (Touchwiz) and while he could add my key, I could never add his - though it did show up in the stock SMS app but never went to your app.
jerdog said:
Well, I am in the same boat as Hacre. I too am using stock SMS app (Touchwiz) and while he could add my key, I could never add his - though it did show up in the stock SMS app but never went to your app.
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I updated the version. Normally it should work now with installed third party apps too.
I will give it a try this weekend if it works with mysms or has there already been experience with that?
otherwise a really cool idea
GerManiac said:
I will give it a try this weekend if it works with mysms
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That would be nice!
jurtsche said:
That would be nice!
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Tested it with mysms app its not working for me, I'm not receiving the sms.
GerManiac said:
Tested it with mysms app its not working for me, I'm not receiving the sms.
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Hi, i installed mysms and tried it.
For me everything works fine.
Could you please tell me the steps you are performing?
What are you receiving instead?
Sure thing...
2 devices: gNexus (4.2) and Nexus S (4.1.2)
1. Both have mysms and pgp sms lite installed
2. Created and shared keys on both
3. Send to each device, through your app, an encrypted sms
4. Nothing happens
User error?
GerManiac said:
Sure thing...
2 devices: gNexus (4.2) and Nexus S (4.1.2)
1. Both have mysms and pgp sms lite installed
2. Created and shared keys on both
3. Send to each device, through your app, an encrypted sms
4. Nothing happens
User error?
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thx.
sharing worked for both and receiving didn't work for the gNexus (4.2)?
Ah, now I understand. Just cleared the apps and tried again.
/4.1.2 got the message that 4.2 shared the key
/4.1.2 got request from 4.2 to share key (also shared that from 4.1.2 before), 4.1.2 responded and sent the key, however does not arrive on 4.2
My bad did not read the toast on time.
So seems to be a 4.2 issue
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Willing to test it later again if you would like me to... Got to go... Pfiat Di
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Hi All!
This is one of my first posts so please bare with me.
Is there any application that will allow an email to be sent automatically from an NFC tag?
NFC Task Launcher sets it up with recipient, subject and body but you have to choose your email application (I have 3) then hit send yourself...
If anyone has any insight into this I'd be very grateful, thanks!
apj1910 said:
*** I tried posting this in the NFC section but wouldn't allow it as a Q & A***
Hi All!
This is one of my first posts so please bare with me.
Is there any application that will allow an email to be sent automatically from an NFC tag?
NFC Task Launcher sets it up with recipient, subject and body but you have to choose your email application (I have 3) then hit send yourself...
If anyone has any insight into this I'd be very grateful, thanks!
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You can try tasker along with task launcher maybe, I've been trying to do stuff like this too, as well as auto-delete text messages.
orangekid said:
You can try tasker along with task launcher maybe, I've been trying to do stuff like this too, as well as auto-delete text messages.
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thanks orangekid, i'll give that a try, i guess it won't be too long before a developer releases an all round app for nfc.
thanks!
Hello,
I'd like to figure out a way to use Llama to send an HTTP GET request to my home automation system. In particular I wish to turn the power to the charger on and off based on battery percent as this tablet will be mounted on a wall. Since Llama seems to require opening of the browser to do this, I'm assuming this would require another app. My question is, does one exist? I just want a shortcut that will execute a HTTP request in a completely invisible fasion. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Hello,
I have the same request. Do you find a solution?
mrceolla said:
Hello,
I'd like to figure out a way to use Llama to send an HTTP GET request to my home automation system. In particular I wish to turn the power to the charger on and off based on battery percent as this tablet will be mounted on a wall. Since Llama seems to require opening of the browser to do this, I'm assuming this would require another app. My question is, does one exist? I just want a shortcut that will execute a HTTP request in a completely invisible fasion. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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Pierre59 said:
Hello,
I have the same request. Do you find a solution?
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Yes. I wrote my own little app that will create shortcuts. It's not in the Play store but I could try to send it to you if you'd like.
I find a solution with the app Tasker. This app could send an Http request but i have other issue. The better way will be to make my own app. If you could send me your version, it will be a great help for starting.
(Sorry for my English)
Pierre59 said:
I find a solution with the app Tasker. This app could send an Http request but i have other issue. The better way will be to make my own app. If you could send me your version, it will be a great help for starting.
(Sorry for my English)
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I just sent you an email with the apk attached. I just downloaded the Tasker trial and wasn't super impressed. Perhaps if it were free I would've made use of it but I enjoyed the opportunity to learn a little about Android development. What was your issues with Tasker?
Let me know if my app works for you.
Hello !
I'm also looking for a similar solution.
I use Llama and I need to update my Android GPS location through a HTTP POST.
I really don't want to use tasker... Do you have clues for me ? I'm able if needed to create an APK.
Thanks !
dough29 said:
Hello !
I'm also looking for a similar solution.
I use Llama and I need to update my Android GPS location through a HTTP POST.
I really don't want to use tasker... Do you have clues for me ? I'm able if needed to create an APK.
Thanks !
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The little app I wrote is only designed to make a static HTTP request. In other words, it won't be able to read any Llama variables or anything like that. However, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to modify the app to support what you're looking to do. I could send you the source code privately if you promise to send me back your changes.
@mrceolla Could you send me the app and source code. I shall send back any changes I do.
I have this pokemon app which sents me a notification with a link to a newly unlocked gym every 3 hours and I want to catch the data of this notification and send it to my computer.
I have thought about this problem and what I came up with was that maybe it's possible to build an app that listens for notifications of other apps and writes them in a .log file which would be accessible to my computer if I used an emulator like bluestacks.
I'm really not sure what the best way to go about this is, or if it's even possible to get a link of an android notification out of the notification bar.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
anyone?
AutoNotification and Tasker should work, but they aren't free.
They do have a 7-day trial though, so you can test with that.
teknixstuff said:
AutoNotification and Tasker should work, but they aren't free.
They do have a 7-day trial though, so you can test with that.
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How exactly would they work to get me to my acquired goal?
Rivaldo said:
How exactly would they work to get me to my acquired goal?
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You could probably make a tasker profile to trigger when a notification arrives and then send the contents of the notification to your PC
One idea to send the data from tasker to the PC is to use a flask server on the PC and an HTTP request in tasker. I'll make the code and a setup guide for you if you want.
teknixstuff said:
One idea to send the data from tasker to the PC is to use a flask server on the PC and an HTTP request in tasker. I'll make the code and a setup guide for you if you want.
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sure the more information the better!