Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
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Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
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#2Hi I'm Henry, the creator of Felony
I’ve had a passion for politics, history, and programming since the age of 12 growing up in a suburb of Chicago. During my freshman year, I developed an interest in software. A couple of apps and hackathons (programming competitions) later, I was working on my own startups when I made the leap to drop out of high school to become a software engineer at a venture-backed tech startup.
While working there I learned that PGP encryption was the tool used by Edward Snowden to securely send messages to journalists. The immense value of encryption as a core component of our free society became clear to me. Amongst fellow coders, I had no trouble using command-line encryption to communicate. But my friends who didn’t code couldn’t easily do the same since they don’t know how to use the command-line. Given how important encryption is, I decided to build a first-rate encryption tool that could be used by anyone on any website, regardless of background.
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#3Ah, neat- OpenPGP.js! Stumbled upon this the other day and was impressed that it's already been audited (Cure53).
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#4It's not obvious from the readme, how does key exchange work?
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#5I'm not sure this is the name to use if you want people of only average political commitment to use your app. Although at least it's a striking name.
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#6Mods, could we have something descriptive added to the title? This single word doesn't really give me any idea what this about. Suggestions (taken from the link)
Felony: Next Level PGP Felony: An open-source PGP keychain built on the modern web
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#7Hi I'm Henry, the creator of Felony I’ve had a passion for politics, history, and programming since the age of 12 growing up in a suburb of Chicago. During my freshman year, I developed an interest in software. A couple of apps and hackathons (programming competitions) later, I was working on my own startups when I made the leap to drop out of high school to become a software engineer at a venture-backed tech startup…
Hi! The app looks great. Can you speak a bit more about the interaction? How would two people who just downloaded Felony send an encrypted message to each other?
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#8I'm not sure this is the name to use if you want people of only average political commitment to use your app. Although at least it's a striking name.
Thanks! We found it randomly by searching available .io domain names.
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#9It's not obvious from the readme, how does key exchange work?
Once your key is generated you can click the 'copy' icon to the right of your name in the header. After that you can share the key on any platform you like, including Keybase.io :)
Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain
#10Mods, could we have something descriptive added to the title? This single word doesn't really give me any idea what this about. Suggestions (taken from the link) Felony: Next Level PGP Felony: An open-source PGP keychain built on the modern web
Also, here's the link to the README file. (Nicely done!)