- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Tired of loosing your passwords/secrets? Shamir’s Secret Sharing has got your back! Split your secrets into many shards and encrypt those for your friends’ public keys, and voilà! demo
PLEASE DON’T USE THIS FOR ANYTHING SENSITIVE. NEVER ENCRYPT ANYTHING IN THE WEB BROWSER IT CAN NEVER EVER EVER BE SECURE BECAUSE THAT IS NOT WHAT A WEB BROWSER IS FOR AT ALL AND IT WILL NEVER BE NO MATTER WHAT PRETEND EXPERTS SAY.
But where are you downloading from? The attacker’s website in either case.
I guess what you are advocating is that you can use a “trusted” version forever and not run the risk of the author turning trustworthy in the future. However you can also just save the webpage.
Yeah, you could save the page. But at that point, you could use a command-line tool too (does something like that exist?).
Yeah, that’s exactly what I meant, even if the author remains trustworthy, a website can get compromised more easily.
Yes, it’s called ssss and has very good chances of being packaged for your distro!
For a lot of users using a saved webpage is much easier than a command-line tool. In fact if it is something I use infrequently I would also rather use a webpage than a command-line tool as well.
Okay, right. It depends on the person