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Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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"Nightweb starts its life by generating a DSA-SHA1 key pair"

Just a note for the authors, as of 2010 NIST recommends not using SHA-1 for new digital signature generation and "disallows after 2013". See section 9 here: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-131A/sp800-13...

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #111

"Nightweb starts its life by generating a DSA-SHA1 key pair" Just a note for the authors, as of 2010 NIST recommends not using SHA-1 for new digital signature generation and "disallows after 2013". See section 9 here: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-131A/sp800-13...

Yeah I chose that because I2P uses it. The devs are already discussing upgrading, and once they do I will upgrade it in Nightweb as well.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #109
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This is so cool. It makes me want to switch to Android just to use it. Any thoughts on a desktop client?

I am definitely considering making a desktop client. I can re-use all the backend code but will have to make a UI from scratch, so it won't necessarily be soon.

Second the motion for a desktop client

I _have_ an Android, but I dislike typing on it. For me, it's a phone, period.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #57

Android 4? That's a pity. But why a mobil app? Why not a .war app for the i2p router? IMO Social networks are something that are mostly used on desktop computers. Also it seems to me like you want to fork i2p. I think that's a very bad idea. First since you should be very confident in your skills if you roll your own crypto. Second because a split seems not necessary and harmful in the long run for the network. The i…

IMO Social networks are something that are mostly used on desktop computers.

50% of Facebook's traffic was mobile one year ago and I'm sure it's even more now.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #91
post #56

Great stuff but will it really scale? See secushare.org/2011-FSW-Scalability-Paranoia Did anyone try to save Nightweb's data directory encrypted in Dropbox or ownCloud? Would it be possible to add something like a reply option to a post? This would give us twitteresque chat. Would love to be able to share posts with certain persons only. PS: Can someone provide a download link for those avoiding Google Play? TIA

You can already reply to posts. Just hit the new post button when viewing a post, and your post will link back to it. I'm considering adding an APK download link, but my site doesn't use SSL so I didn't feel comfortable doing it there.

Also would be great to have it in F-Droid repo (http://f-droid.org/). They have direct APK download over https.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's mine, for science: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=tnaohxmxj2eg3fsf...

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=utvlt5hh6o5bjqil...

Hello World/Hackernews

http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=h4e7zymwpdvsdjxs...

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #79

Anyone else having trouble adding pics? They seem to attach properly but don't show up after I hit send.

I'll look into this. EDIT: Ugh, yep, a bug I introduced recently. I am issuing another update, 0.0.6.

Nice! But i have another problem, I upload a picture and this turned one left.

Re: Show HN: An anonymous P2P social network for Android, written in Clojure

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post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll look into this. EDIT: Ugh, yep, a bug I introduced recently. I am issuing another update, 0.0.6.

Nice! But i have another problem, I upload a picture and this turned one left.

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you mean.
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