![]() If you’re going to do one thing, do it right. #Ĭryptocat has one mission, to provide secure communication – which is to say, to encrypt data. The most vital step in any crypto system is the key generation if you get it wrong, nothing else matters. The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. That code should be well reviewed and understood by multiple people. A day later cryptography researcher, Nadim Kobeissi best known for authoring the open-source E2E-encrypted desktop chat app. The idea for Capsule started with a tweet about reinventing social media. RSS Feed Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates. Cryptocat author gets insanely fast backing to build P2P tech for social mediaBy: Natasha Lomason Januat 8:06. Capsule is just the latest contender for retooling Internet power structures by building infrastructure that radically decentralizes social platforms to make speech more resilient. That same study found that, overall, social media can make children feel happier about their friendships. Steve does a great job explaining the issue here but the short version is that the person that wrote the code – and anyone that’s reviewed it since then, didn’t understand what they were doing. Cryptocat media gets insanely backing to. Cryptocat creator will get insanely quick backing to construct p2p tech for social media For now theres nothing to see beyond Capsules landing page and a pitch deck. Cryptocat media gets insanely fast backing free. When you release code like this to the public, and encourage people to use it – especially those that are at higher risk (i.e. activists), you take on a certain responsibility for ensuring that at least the core functionality is doing what’s expected. In this case, the team behind Cryptocat failed. I recently mentioned Cryptocat in my OPSEC article: For a year, the entire user base was at risk. 1-2 tbsp of natural peanut butter (200 calories)s you can see, this adds up quickly to over 800 clean calories and they are all healthy foods. You will notice that these shakes have no junk sugars and no bad fats. Last year was painful for Cryptocat – the last audit may have been clean, but who knows what else may be found. So for all those whiners who complain that they cant get enough food each day-throw that excuse out the window. When I wrote that, I wasn’t expecting it to be a bug that rendered the group chat encryption nearly pointless. While in their blog post they seem to downplay the issue, I won’t – for a year, group chat was completely broken. There’s no doubt that crypto is hard, everybody agrees on that. Or said more accurately, doing it right is hard. ![]() Having spent the past month doing it, let me tell you: implementing cryptography is *hard*. Writing key generation code scares me, I’m paranoid that I’ll get it wrong. So I take extra time to review it in detail. Then have other people review it in detail. I don’t release it to a ‘production’ environment until I’m sure as I can be that it’s right.
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