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Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

#11

Post by denton-scratch »

bdominy wrote: post #9
_1tan wrote: post #6

Cool! Is the app restricted to certain regions at the moment? Unable to download from a EU-country.

Unfortunately, it is restricted to the US App Store due to there being a higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe and other countries outside the US. Once I get some traction, I'm planning to release it everywhere.

> higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe

Excuse me? What are you referring to? I'm in Europe (UK), I use encryption routinely, and if I have a compliance obligation I didn't know about, I'd be grateful if you'd point it out to me.

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

#12

Post by bdominy »

denton-scratch wrote: post #11
bdominy wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, it is restricted to the US App Store due to there being a higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe and other countries outside the US. Once I get some traction, I'm planning to release it everywhere.

> higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe Excuse me? What are you referring to? I'm in Europe (UK), I use encryption routinely, and if I have a compliance obligation I didn't know about, I'd be grateful if you'd point it out to me.

Sorry. I mean Apple adds steps to releasing an app outside the US if it uses encryption. I'm doing neucards as a solo effort and am hoping to see some traction before taking on those requirements. Here is a link to Apple's policy

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

#13

Post by wkat4242 »

Nice idea but without worldwide availability and and Android version there's no chance for it.

Here in Spain Android is about 70% of the mobile market.

But nice idea in general. It would also be nice to be able to unshare or blacklist contacts (like pushy sales guys that keep bothering me for stuff I have nothing to do with)

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

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Post by pfg_ »

prophesi wrote: post #8

Any chance of opening the source? I'm a bit confused how it could be E2E-encrypted if the URL doesn't have a URI fragment. This is usually where the key would be located, as the URI fragment isn't sent to the server unless there's malicious code doing otherwise.

It looks like the web interface is not E2E encrypted, the server decrypts the card info and sends that decrypted info to you.

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

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Post by bdominy »

wkat4242 wrote: post #13

Nice idea but without worldwide availability and and Android version there's no chance for it. Here in Spain Android is about 70% of the mobile market. But nice idea in general. It would also be nice to be able to unshare or blacklist contacts (like pushy sales guys that keep bothering me for stuff I have nothing to do with)

100% agree. I'm hoping to add Android and other markets in the not too distant future. As for unsharing, that's possible by removing a recipient and I have plans to help even more in the scenario you describe.

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

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Post by mschuster91 »

bdominy wrote: post #12
denton-scratch wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> higher compliance necessary for using encryption in Europe Excuse me? What are you referring to? I'm in Europe (UK), I use encryption routinely, and if I have a compliance obligation I didn't know about, I'd be grateful if you'd point it out to me.

Sorry. I mean Apple adds steps to releasing an app outside the US if it uses encryption. I'm doing neucards as a solo effort and am hoping to see some traction before taking on those requirements. Here is a link to Apple's policy https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/complying...

And here I thought that the days of encryption being classified under ITAR were over for decades. Apparently I was wrong, or Apple insists on over-compliance...

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

#18

Post by smoldesu »

This looks cool. Unfortunately, I can get 99% of the way there with a regular NFC tag that has my contact info and a link to my website. Doing that, I can link to my own website and keep everything up-to-date and I don't need to trust others for security.

With all that in mind, I think your actual product is kinda thin and easy to disrupt. I wish you luck (I'm surprised more people don't use NFC business cards) but I'm not sure about your staying power with the current iteration.

Re: Show HN: Neucards – Privacy based digital contact card

#19

Post by bdominy »

smoldesu wrote: post #18

This looks cool. Unfortunately, I can get 99% of the way there with a regular NFC tag that has my contact info and a link to my website. Doing that, I can link to my own website and keep everything up-to-date and I don't need to trust others for security. With all that in mind, I think your actual product is kinda thin and easy to disrupt. I wish you luck (I'm surprised more people don't use NFC business cards) but I…

You may be right. It isn't easy to convince people to try something new. As for your website contact info link, how do you tell people that have the link to revisit it when you've made a change?
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