The increasing threat to consumer privacy

Retail giant, Target suffered a data security breach in 2013; hackers got access to it consumer database of the company, affecting many of their customers. The retailer was forced to pay $18.5 million for the data breach with over 41 million of its customer's database in breach.
Another, corporation to suffer was, consumer credit reporting agency, Equifax suffered massively as a result of a cyber attack affecting over 143 million of its customers, and hackers captured their personally identifiable data, this is believed to have occurred in mid may and July 2017.

Consumer mistrust.

As a result of this development, consumers are getting increasingly worried about the entities they give out their data to when it becomes necessary to share such data with them.

Regaining consumer trust

Companies and businesses are now looking for ways of protecting its database, to restore consumers trust, for that reason experts and technology companies have been designing best technologies to defend cyber attacks.

Fortknoxster.

Fortknoxsters is one of such companies, founded by a team of Danish cybersecurity experts, well experienced in cyber defense matters. Now it is proven that blockchain technology is the surest way to safeguard data from a hacker. This technique allows data to be stored in blocks and linked and secured using cryptography; this keeps data very protected without the need for a central authority.

Overview of Fortknoxsters end to end encryption

Fortknoxsters engages tight end to end encryption implying no one can understand or read your encrypted data on stored servers except the intended recipient. This design makes you send messages after encrypted and remains so never decrypted until you have unlocked using your private key or by the intended recipient in the case of email and sharing files.

This encryption happens on the client side, and only encrypted data is passed on to servers. This information is kept on the servers and secured, and it remains so and cannot be decrypted by anyone without the encryption keys, these keys are generated in the browser, encrypted with the recipient public keys and sent to the servers on an encrypted connection and kept on the servers. These keys can be decrypted only in the browser of the recipient with the recipient private key protected by the recipient password.

All communications and files between users are encrypted in the browser of the sender and leave to the servers and stored in a decentralized unit of storage. Decryption of users data is only possible in the recipient's browser yet all communications and data of users remain encrypted on every device of the user.

These are some features of our encryption services

• Encryption based on public key cryptography
• Encryption based on 256-bit AES encryption
• Encryption based on RS A 2048-bit key cryptography
• Elliptic curve P-521 cryptography
• PBKDF2 key derived with SHA-256 hashing

User Privacy features include

• A Blockchain technology with decentralized trust of digital identities
• A decentralized p2p distributed storage
• Zero knowledge of our architecture
• You are the only one to access your private keys
• Confidentiality, indented recipients are the only ones to get accessibility to data
• For authenticity, All messages are verified to avoid tampering
• Digital signatures of every note is signed digitally with the sender identity also verified

Fortknoxsters has, therefore, an established proof of concept to this end, an idea leveraging on blockchain technology to maximise end-user privacy, and a concept with a tremendous potential for growth, and scalable globally, this is the first of its kind. Offering end to end encryption services to consumers, an encryption solution that comes together with the power of blockchain technology implemented to safeguard consumers privacy.

For more information please visit https://fortknoxster.com/ and the Whitepaper.