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lxgryesterday at 11:34 AM2 repliesview on HN

> 21 curated ciphers are available

Why!? That sounds like approximately 20 too many.


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smalltorchyesterday at 11:40 AM

The library is openssl and that comes with all these ciphers available. No other reason than because we can!

I wish AES-GCM was available...but openssl can't do it on its own without further dependencies to parse the authentication correctly.

Really this whole layer is complelty redundant actually. It's already E2EE without openssl via Tor. I like that it's encrypted before I hit the network pipe though.

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Benderyesterday at 2:03 PM

I think that's great. Cipher fixation is a vulnerability as the enemy knows what to attack.

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