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giantahead

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    Comment #14747473

    Having seen the experiment in it's beginning (hola E and team), I wonder: out of things you didn't use, have you found the changes to be 'for better good' as well?

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    Comment #14461964

    one can never bring this up enough when discussing execution trust, but still, in context of relative security, some things look weaker than others

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    Comment #14092433

    This is awesome! Much interested to read audit results.

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    Ask HN: Does wasm or web crypto api help web app crypto?

    Web assembly is a very promising idea and has a chance to provide better means for building security into web apps than SJCL/etc by enforcing same origin policy, sandboxing executi…

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    Comment #13821627

    Amazing idea! And brilliant whitepaper, which reads even better than code, by the way.

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    Comment #13806264

    Even being a happy Themis user myself, I wonder how irregular style in some languages (like Python) is.

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    Comment #13770098

    Techniques for noticing you're almost shooting yourself in the leg, then suddenly saving the situation very last moment, mi amigo :)

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    Comment #13770087

    Very good idea! Will try it over the weekend, hope the implementation is sound, too.

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    Ask HN: What was the biggest challenge in securing your SaaS/service?

    By securing I mean building technical security to protect customer / commercially sensitive data, not securing the funding. It would be brilliant to hear both those who did, and th…

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    Comment #12367063

    Cons are: - Security - Disk I/O, if things get intense.

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    Comment #12178954

    Yes, exactly, lots of round trips, quite expensive to calculate each. SMP, the ZKP protocol they're using, is quite expensive itself, but promises even better security and nifty se…

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    Comment #12178941

    Your case is a case of established trust relationship (remote party has your private key it trusts), which is somewhat different from what folks in the article suggest, hence the z…

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