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ILoveIM adds Password Encryption

Posted by Pavel under Features, Instant Messaging, News, Security

We have done a great step forward to make a better experience for our users – we have introduced a solid password encryption using 1024-bit RSA keys. For those of you who are not aware of that or simply don’t care that much about the technical details, here is a short explanation of RSA encryption logic:

Basically there are two big numbers (“keys”) are used. Or I would better say not just big – HUGE numbers (like a hundred digits or so). One of these numbers is called Public Key and another one is Private Key. Public Key is used to “encrypt” data and Private Key is used to “decrypt” it.

The main trick of RSA algorithm is that Public Key can’t be used to decrypt information. It works one way only – to encrypt something. You must know a valid Private Key to do that and no other way around.

So, in our case - once you click Login button, our page executes a special JavaScript code that uses RSA Public Key to transform your password into an encrypted text and sends it to our servers. Private Keys are available on our servers and they are able to transform your encrypted password back to its original form (decrypt it) to process it and log you into a messenger network.

If someone tries to interrupt the process – they will get encrypted password and without a valid Private Key it’s useless!

We hope this new security enhancements at our side will make you more comfortable to use our web messenger service.
Feel free to contact us if you have a question or/and concerns about that.

Update (or What to do if you can’t login now)
For those of you who experience problems to login into our service, please clean your browser temporary files and try again.
If it still fails after that - contact us and we will work with you in person to solve the problem.