Re:Show HN: Password-protect a static HTML page
by falcolas on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @04:00PM
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True, but if there's one shared key for each page, the chances of that key getting loose are higher. There are alsomethods of encrypting a message where you can specify multiple recipients (i.e. multiple keys), letting you remove one key without affecting the viewership of the page for people with the other keys.
It's a hard problem, and this is certainly a novel solution to that problem, but I still don't really see myself using it.
Even when you manage to keep the key secret I can't revoke your access to the material or prevent you re-transmitting it to others.