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blastrock

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About blastrock

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/blastrock; my proof: https://keybase.io/blastrock/sigs/Ie4wM2vWTGUOELwCX9Qz5M2p6mzkKnYoPJ9UF-TGOos ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42811528

    Thanks for the link! Funny to see that someone already thought of this attack in 2022

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    Comment #42741854

    Very clever! I am the author of one of the older guides https://blastrock.github.io/fde-tpm-sb.html . I was wondering about the solution you propose which seems a bit complicated t…

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    Comment #20836477

    The encryption/upload is streamed, but the download/decryption is not, we will work on that. Thanks for the link!

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    Comment #20834022

    Actually, Filekit is meant to be integrated into an application, and that application is responsible for delivering JS and handling identities, not the Tanker server.

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    Comment #19985976

    No, the unlock key is for the user to keep, and never be transmitted by anyone else than the user themselves. If you do the transmission, it's not end to end anymore. This option i…

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    Comment #19984442

    TweetNaCl is roughly equivalent to libsodium, on which Tanker builds. Tanker is easier to integrate into your app because it takes care of key sharing, multi-devices, user group ma…

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    Comment #19984379

    > how the Trustchain Private Key is "obtained". The Trustchain private key is generated when you create a Trustchain. It is generated on your machine. You can try it and create a T…

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    Comment #19982759

    > Is libsodium WASMed for the browser? It is not WASMed yet, but we are working on it. > It would be nice if Tanker exposed the cryptography operations, so it could be a more re-us…

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    Comment #19982480

    You are right, you'd still have to trust the webmail/chat provider if you want to chat securely. Tanker still protects against data leaks from the app servers in this case. We also…

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    Comment #19982335

    Tanker developer here. We use libsodium as our underlying cryptographic library. It uses XChacha20/Poly1305 for symmetric encryption, Curve25519 for asymmetric encryption and signa…