Inspiration
Our members have always been fascinated with security and encryption. Due to the nature of many email privacy concerns that have recently emerged, we decided to tackle a way to write safer emails. We aimed to allow users to encrypt/decrypt emails sent to other users over Gmail, ultimately providing a more safe and secure means of sending private information to others.
What it does
CryptoMail is a Chrome extension that allows users to send encrypted emails to others using a public key, which can only be accessed if the end-user has a private key.
How we built it
We consulted a lot of online APIs (such as signal, Gmail, etc.) in order to learn how to encrypt information and spent a lot of time playing around with online repositories.
Challenges we ran into
Though we were all very interested in security, we didn't' have much of a background. This meant that we had to learn how to work with encryption/decryption, as well as how to use public/private keys. We also had some issues with the Chrome extension API.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We were able to get a working prototype, learn more about network security, and lastly came together as a team!
What we learned
We learned about encryption/decryption APIs, the Gmail API, and how to build extensions.
What's next for CryptoMail
Who knows? Maybe we'll get acquired by the CIA or NSA ;)
Built With
- google-mail
- javascript
- node.js
- rust
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