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Re:Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli ... by tucnak on Sunday December 14, 2025 @01:10PM (#46265281)
I'm simply pointing out that web standards allow for secure end-to-end communication, and more, in fact they happen to allow arbitrary cryptographic constructions—as long as the program itself never changes.
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Re:Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli ... by pareidolia on Sunday December 14, 2025 @02:33PM (#46266012)
But this requires special hardware right?
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Re:Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli ... by tucnak on Sunday December 14, 2025 @03:50PM (#46266758)
Not necessarily. You can run TKey in qemu :-) etc. The hardware aspect is what makes it easy to use, with WebUSB and all. The derivation algorithm is key. And it takes program binary as parameter to Blake2 hash function.
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