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Re:Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the inte... by bnpxft on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @02:51PM (#39121826)
great, my browser history is going to be full of secrets now
Re:Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the inte... by asadeddin on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @03:42PM (#39122378)
Your browser history will be full of URLs that only your browser can access. A contributor was kind enough to build a delete function for this to wipe the private key and generate a new one. This would render all those URL's useless. We'll be merging that soon.
Re:Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the inte... by muchosandwich on Thursday January 25, 2024 @04:08AM (#39127651)
Sort of. Malicious browser extensions could look at history and look at local storage before the key is deleted.
Re:Show HN: Retriever – Securely share secrets over the inte... by 8organicbits on Thursday January 25, 2024 @08:44AM (#39129478)
A malicious browser extension can steal all sorts of secrets. Is there a unique weakness here in the linked tool? Otherwise, this seems similarly vulnerable to everything else on the web.