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Re: Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Notion

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I mean, one of the most important things you can do is write up exactly how you use the various pieces of cryptography - so people who know enough can easily evaluate your theoretical ideal. Then when someone takes a look and notices that you're storing the users' RSA private keys on the server, they can check whether you actually meant to do that. Also: Don't store (or ever even have) your users' RSA private keys se…

noted. in the coming weeks we'll be more transparent about the tech stack. in the meanwhile, sure, we don't store private keys on the server side :)

In the login response I see the private key being sent back from the server, it looks like it is encrypted with a key derived from the user's password. 100100 iterations of PBKDF2-SHA512 is certainly better than it could be, but not it's certainly not as secure against brute force attacks as Argon2 or any other modern KDF.
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