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Re:Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids by forgotpwtomain on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @11:07AM (#14595174)
> A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did.

Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be reading the NodeJS code, or just checking the theoretical soundness of the paper? I'm not so certain about the former...

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Re:Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids by pbsd on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @02:39AM (#14601355)
Almost certainly not the former, no. At best the code would be "supplementary material", which reviewers are not required to go over.
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Re:Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids by tptacek on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:17PM (#14598700)
You absolutely need both skills.
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