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App Review: StealthTap keyboard hides messages from peeping toms

VinVarSoft has launched StealthTap, a keyboard app, that can add encryption to any message, enabling the receiving party to decrypt the message. Messages forwarded can be unlocked by any user with the keyboard, although the company mentions that in the next release it will enable personal unlocking, i.e a locked message can only be unlocked by the intended recipient. Founded by Vinay Kanamarlapudi and Varun Medapuram, the app is available on both Android and iOS. As of now it supports five languages, including English, French, Italian, Spanish and German and uses AES-128 encryption to encrypt and lock messages. How it works: On activating the keyboard, users can type regular text, then hit the lock icon on the top left side. This encrypts the message and appends text prompting the recipient to download the keyboard. To decrypt it, the receiving user needs to copy the message, open up the keyboard (by hitting the messaging box) and hit the unlock icon at the top right corner. Once the keyboard is set to unlock, any encrypted messages copied are immediately shown in plain text in the window below. What we thought: Frankly, we felt appending the text prompting to download the app should have be optional, the messages get too long with the added text (it is removable manually), filling up the screen unnecessarily. A user only need to be prompted the first time to download the keyboard, and that too only if they don't have it. Additionally, it makes it amply clear to anyone reading…

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