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Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by bitJericho on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:08PM (#7320783)
Too bad it's not sent securely.
Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by ChrisClark on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:23PM (#7320875)
It's not sent at all. Everything seems to be generated locally.
Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by adambard on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:37PM (#7320940)
The code to generate keys locally is still sent over an unsecured connection.
Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by jleehey on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:52PM (#7321414)
Why does this matter? You'll need to get the code somehow, and once its on your machine, it doesn't make any requests. You can take a look at the code to find out if its malicious or not.
Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by bitJericho on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:10PM (#7321525)
How on Earth would you be able to (easily) tell if the scripts loaded into memory are the scripts at the legitimate URL location? Eg:

    <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/lib/bitcoinjs-min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/lib/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
    <script data-main="/js/main" src="/js/lib/require.min.js"></script>
Re:Show HN: Sixty Large – wallet generator for cryptocurrencies by jccooper on Friday February 28, 2014 @05:01PM (#7321829)
You can still verify that it's not communicating. Browser (and/or OS tools) will show that easily.

What you can't verify easily (without inspecting the source through your browser) is that the keys its giving you are brand new. Figuring that's a bit more involved--and you'd have to do that every time you load the page. Which really kills the ease of using a website.