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Re:Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while starin... by rvikmanis on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:37PM (#8439345)
Idea: add SSL and client-side symmetric key cryptography, while not saving the passphrase anywhere.
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Re:Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while starin... by tkoski on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:44PM (#8439389)
SSL is on the "short TODO list" (service still in proof of concept stage) so SSL should be implemented/enabled soon.

I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best.

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Re:Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while starin... by rvikmanis on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:05PM (#8439481)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard

It shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes

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Re:Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while starin... by tkoski on Friday October 10, 2014 @03:12PM (#8439513)
Thanks.
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