Hooray! Mini Donkey is Here!

An app that helps encrypt your messages securely & secretly

credit: the MiniDonkey repository

As social media is growing to be an essential part of our daily communication, privacy issues have become concerning.

However, existing privacy-preserving messaging apps are:

• Vulnerable to service blocking (What if the app/server is banned?)
• Alerting (Attention please! I am encrypted!)

Mini Donkey is an app that encrypts messages with camouflage

By contrast, Mini Donkey aims to be:

• Service independent (completely offline and produces encrypted messages that are compatible with all platforms).
• Camouflage (produces encrypted messages that appear deceptively public).

With the restrictions above in mind, I designed Mini Donkey to first encrypt messages with a one-time password and then encode the message into an image as camouflage.

Here is a diagram showing how the encoding flow works:

credit: encoding flow diagram from the Mini Donkey repository

The decoding path is more straightforward, and here is a diagram illustrating how decoding message from image works:

credit: decoding flow diagram from the Mini Donkey repository

Let’s see it in action

Here is how the encoding flow works in action:

credit: encoding flow demo from the Mini Donkey repository

Here is how the decoding flow works in action:

credit: encoding flow demo from the Mini Donkey repository

Thanks for reading!

The Mini Donkey app is available on Google Play Store:

MiniDonkey - Apps on Google Play

If you like the idea of Mini Donkey, please:

• Follow the Mini Donkey publication and the author (maybe? haha)
• Give the Mini Donkey repository a start ;)
• Give Mini Donkey a review on Google Play Store
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