I’ve spent the last several days coming up with my own phpBB modification so that Private Messages can be encrypted and sent to other board members – then decrypted by the recipient, so long as they provide the same encryption key that was originally used.<\/p>\n
This exercise was fun, tiring, and frustrating all at the same time. While I certainly know more now about the board software (and the use of encryption via PHP) than I did before, I’m still not completely enlightened. Some of what I did was, effectively, trial and error – involving sticking code in certain places until things ended up working.<\/p>\n
Frankly, I’m surprised that nobody’s come up with such a mod before. Despite the trouble it gave me (as a first time coder of this sort of thing) the basic idea is really quite simple.<\/p>\n
I’m now busy documenting the changes I made so that I can submit it as an “official” mod to the appropriate places. (If only I could make some money off of this…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve spent the last several days coming up with my own phpBB modification so that Private Messages can be encrypted and sent to other board members – then decrypted by the recipient, so long as they provide the same encryption key that was originally used. This exercise was fun, tiring, and frustrating all at the …<\/p>\n