Encryption, Security, and Privacy
The Internet works by relaying data from one computer to another computer to another computer, and so on, until eventually the data reaches the actual target computer it was intended for. This means that when you send or receive data over the Internet, your data has passed through a number of locations before it arrived. At any one of these points, someone could install a network monitoring tool that captures a copy of the data that you sent.
If you are using Ethernet, it is even easier for someone to get a copy of your private communications because Ethernet broadcasts your data to every computer on the same LAN segment (unless hubs are replaced with switches). This means that any computer on the same LAN segment can be configured to "listen" to the ethernet traffic, and grab copies of interesting data, such as passwords, chat, private messages, files etc.
This is what it looks like if someone uses a network monitoring tool to capture the data sent between you and an FTP server to upload a file named "testtextfile.txt" containing the text "The quick brown fox jumped over the exceedingly lazy dogs.":
220 ProFTPD 1.2.0pre10 Server USER johnsmith 331 Password required for johnsmith. PASS goldilocks2003 230 User johnsmith logged in. STOR testtextfile.txt 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for testtextfile.txt The quick brown fox jumped over the exceedingly lazy dogs. 226 Transfer complete.
As you can see, the contents of the file is plainly visible. Even the password is plainly visible! FTP is therefore not a secure way to communicate.
This is what it looks like to upload the same file using Haxial's KDX product:
As you can see, the password and file are unreadable -- KDX has encrypted it using a strong encryption algorithm. Provided that you use good passwords, it is very difficult for someone to read your private KDX communications. This makes KDX a far more secure way to communicate than other non-encrypted protocols such as FTP, which make no attempt to protect your communications.
KDX encrypts everything that it sends including chat, messages, news, file data (uploads and downloads), file names, etc.
For more information about KDX, please see the Haxial KDX Product Page.
Important Legal Notice:
Haxial does NOT guarantee or warrant that KDX is secure. Haxial does NOT represent that the security of KDX cannot be compromised. Haxial does NOT represent that the encryption in KDX is unbreakable. Please read Haxial's Software License Agreement for more information. All of the above information is subject to this license.