[HacktionLab] HacktionLab Digest, Vol 53, Issue 19

[Charlie Harvey]

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On 30/09/12 18:23, johnc wrote:
> Hi Charlie,
> 
> There seems to be a bit of a war going on with claims and couter-claims
> about whether or not it's possible to do crypto securely in browser with
> javascript see below for a taste:
> 
> https://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat/issues/16
> 
> I honestly don't know enough to say who is right but the underlying
> cryptography, (OTR encryption), is available in traditional desktop
> program via the the OTR plugin for pidgin.
> 
> It's not too hard to to use this with your own jabber/XMPP server, I
> recommend ejabberd.
> 
> Cheers,
> John

Hi John,

Thanks for getting back to me. OK, that was basically the position I'd
got too about cryptocat as well. We're not planning to use it or
necessarily recommend that people do, we're probably going to get the
author to write something on the importance of privacy on the interwebs
in general...

Cheers,


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