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> There's no real controversy or drama here. There's just one guy who is very vocal. Isn't that how tech-centered controversies work? Especially in cryptography.

Fantastic work, Chris! It's really great to see that ChatSecure has such an ambitious roadmap.

Well, it is a client-side encryption app. If the encryption, public key authentication, etc. is being done well on the client, then the server's only purpose should be routing garb…

The majority of Telegram's source code seems to be released as free software: https://telegram.org/apps (scroll down)

What about the Surface Pro 3?

Fingerprints are for verifying your own identity in the group chat context. They confirm your own identity to others. It's hard for new users to understand this — the blog post men…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178341 Where is this going, exactly? PG's answer to this amounts to saying that HN can critique any company except for those funded by YCombin…

> (HN is a YC marketing arm, he runs the website and can do whatever he wants, etc, etc). HN is much more than a marketing arm — it's one of the most central forums for programmer …

What PG is saying is that HN can be used to criticize anyone except companies backed by YC. That's unacceptable.

Everything you've said in your comment is good advice. Once the paper I've mentioned is ready, we will have this kind of implementation.

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.

It's true that we don't have a research paper per se for the multiparty protocol, but we do have a specification document [1] as well as implementations in Objective-C, Java and Ja…

nadim@crypto.cat

I'd gladly accept your help with improving our Catalan translations! :-)

Yup! I'm leaving for D.C. tomorrow and will be at that hackathon. Please come and help!

Thank you very much for that comment. I believe that we've been truly open source, transparent and accountable for our code since day one. There are other projects who are currentl…

> How do you manage to afford to finance the audits and bug bounties? Public donations from our website and funding from public institutions and NGOs. Currently, our audits are fun…

Derp. Fixed. Thanks!

Cryptocat's website and the Cryptocat app itself are both fully translated into Catalan, and we maintain a very communicative and open relationship with PuntCAT.

I like to think that the Cryptocat team and myself have matured beyond the point where we consider security disclosures to be punishment, but rather something to be expected when h…

There are currently three Cryptocat clients: * Cryptocat: The original client. It's a signed browser extension that you download and install in your browser. It offers OTR implemen…

Cryptocat for Android is particularly unfinished so far. I would be surprised if you don't find bugs inside. Cryptocat for iPhone is currently a lot more mature, but similarly stil…