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| 5 | daniel-mar | 1 | # ViaThinkSoft CryptoChat |
| 2 | Cryptochat an AJAX crypto chat system which encrypts and decrypts using JavaScript on client side. |
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| 3 | The chat log is saved encrypted on the server. |
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| 5 | ## Note about security: |
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| 6 | - Please ensure that you are using HTTPS, otherwise the JavaScript could be manipulated using a Man-In-The-Middle attack. |
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| 8 | ## What is encrypted? |
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| 9 | - Messages which are shown ORANGE are encrypted. White messages are not encrypted. |
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| 10 | - Usernames and time stamps are not encrypted. |
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| 11 | - Chat room names are not encrypted. |
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| 13 | ## Requirements |
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| 14 | **Server:** |
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| 15 | - Linux |
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| 16 | - PHP |
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| 17 | - Apache |
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| 19 | **Clients:** |
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| 20 | - JavaScript capable web browser |
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| 22 | ## How to install CryptoChat |
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| 23 | To install CryptoChat, run the script **install.sh**. |
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| 24 | If you cannot run the script, then copy **config/config.original.inc.php** to **config/config.inc.php** and edit it. After that, please make sure that the folder "chats" has the correct chmod permission so that the webserver daemon can write to it. |