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So I've had this idea on my radar for a while, but here was my angle: What if you made this a web extension, and took control of textareas everywhere on the we

So I've had this idea on my radar for a while, but here was my angle: What if you made this a web extension, and took control of textareas everywhere on the web? Why not be able to turn any message delivery (ex. facebook messenger) into a delivery for private messaging. What keybase used to be (a repository for peoples' public keys) would be a great integration point -- if the person has a public key listed (maybe in a twitter bio, etc), you can send them messages that are encrypted with a generated symmetric key + nonce (the usual safe enveloping rigor you need) -- and every message you send them might start with the URL or the actual encrypted message itself (and it would be up to them to use the extension to decode it). It would be easy to get this working with a browser (a sufficiently powered web extension would do), but a bit harder to get it working on phones since the APIs aren't QUITE there, but IIRC there are some screen scraping APIs that could actually work (as long as your read the screen text, convert that to a message, then decode etc).

keurrr 4y ago
My friend and I implemented this a couple of years ago. It is no longer maintained but the general ideas still apply. Very few social media sites use standard text areas which makes maintaining compatibility a total PITA. https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble There is another group that fully supports an E2EE Facebook https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook
- hardwaresofton 4y ago
  Thanks for the pointers! Keeping up with the changing components/data entry stuff for different websites would certainly suck.
exabrial 4y ago
This was called PGP and it was cool for awhile
- joymonger 4y ago
  It was pretty good.
rpdillon 4y ago
Not exactly what you describe, but you might find Mailvelope[0] interesting. https://mailvelope.com/en/ https://mailvelope.com/en/
- rakoo 4y ago
  If memory serves well, mailvelope can actually be used for any text box so you can use it even in non-email contexts.

keurrr 4y ago

My friend and I implemented this a couple of years ago. It is no longer maintained but the general ideas still apply. Very few social media sites use standard text areas which makes maintaining compatibility a total PITA. https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble https://github.com/XCF-Babble/babble There is another group that fully supports an E2EE Facebook https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook https://github.com/DimensionDev/Maskbook

hardwaresofton 4y ago
Thanks for the pointers! Keeping up with the changing components/data entry stuff for different websites would certainly suck.

exabrial 4y ago

This was called PGP and it was cool for awhile

joymonger 4y ago
It was pretty good.

rpdillon 4y ago

Not exactly what you describe, but you might find Mailvelope[0] interesting. https://mailvelope.com/en/ https://mailvelope.com/en/

rakoo 4y ago
If memory serves well, mailvelope can actually be used for any text box so you can use it even in non-email contexts.