Trustable Downloader for the well-informed ones

If you already know what the Trustable Downloader is about:



Click here to proceed.



If you don't, read on...

Do you trust your downloaded files?

Downloading files from the Internet is getting more and more dangerous these days. Viruses, worms and trojans are a latent risk. You should face them with a good antivirus-scanner. But there are new hazards you hardly have a chance against: On-the-fly-manipulation (man-in-the-middle attack) of reliable download files.



Paranoid? Read here how network-programmers are asked for quotations regarding a "tranparent bridge which determines a download of a executable programm and appends a trojan to it on-the-fly".



Many countries planing to or are already spying out computer-systems of their citizens. This isn't just about China - this is about Germany, Swiss and other countries you thought they wouldn't be rogue nations:

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85895

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85111



What you need is a tool that protects you against these dangers:

Features of Trustable Downloader

Key features

  • Protection against man-in-the-middle attacks

    Your download is protected against man-in-the-middle attacks through encryption. A man-in-the-middle will not be able to manipulate your data.
  • Checksums

    The MD5- and SHA-checksums of the downloaded file will be displayed. You can compare them to the ones provided by the site you get your download from.
  • Antivirus-check (coming soon)

    Scans your downloaded files for viruses, worms and trojans.

More vantages of using Trustable Downloader

  • Optional HEX-encoding

    Trustable Downloader can additionally HEX-encode the bytes of the download-stream (the file is transmitted as "plain text"). So most content-filters will not block a badly needed file just because they can't scan the download. Caution! This option will double your download-traffic and -time!
  • Download from unreachable (non-standard) ports

    If you are behind a firewall and just got the ports 80 and 443 open, Trustable Downloader can help you download files from servers listening to non-standard ports (like 8080 or something).
  • Download censored resources

    If you are behind a censoring content-filter, you can download censored resources, too (as long as the Trusted Downloader himself isn't censored...).

Happy downloading!

Now you know what the Trustable Downloader is about. One more thing before we kick it:



You have to accept this dialog:







Why?

Because the Trustable Downloader is a Java-Applet and as such it won't be able to save files to your disk by default. Without this ability Trustable Downloader wouldn't help you much...



Feel confident? Then click here to proceed. If you don't, read on...

More about security

How can I be sure that the Trustable Downloader himself isn't polluted?

You receive the Trustable Downloader Applet over a SSL-Connection (Secure Sockets Layer - https). This assures that the Applet isn't polluted at tranfer time. Additionally you can check the sign of the Applet at startup time:



How can I be sure that my connection wasn't hijacked to a fake OpenWebtools.org-server?

Check the server-cert. Your browser should display you these informations:







Feel confident? Then click here to proceed.