ShadowCrypt research project shows encryption approach
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and University of Maryland believe they have come up with a previously unexplored design point, ShadowCrypt, that enables encrypted input/output without trusting any part of the web applications. That means they are suggesting a tool that can bring simple encrypted messaging to webmail and social networking sites. That means you could send and receive encrypted text on Facebook and Twitter. MIT Technology Review refers to it as a prototype browser extension, where the site operator or anyone intercepting the posting sees only a garbled string of letters and numbers. The researchers, in their paper, "ShadowCrypt: Encrypted Web Applications for Everyone," prepared for presentation at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, discussed the chokepoint in their design.