Show HN: Tweet encrypted messages (tweetencryptor.netlify.com) 4 points by raghavtoshniwal 7y ago ↗ HN
[–] notahappycamper 7y ago ↗ Why are there only hashing algorithms for this? Doesn't that defeat the purpose entirely, since there is no potential to decrypt? [–] raghavtoshniwal 7y ago ↗ The author of the tweet has the original message, that can be shared and verified against the hash [–] O_H_E 7y ago ↗ I am failing to recognise the use case (Beside the learning dimension which is great). [–] notahappycamper 7y ago ↗ So it only provides repudiation of the sender, and only if they can share the original message through some secure channel? That isn't even a signature, let alone encryption
[–] raghavtoshniwal 7y ago ↗ The author of the tweet has the original message, that can be shared and verified against the hash [–] O_H_E 7y ago ↗ I am failing to recognise the use case (Beside the learning dimension which is great). [–] notahappycamper 7y ago ↗ So it only provides repudiation of the sender, and only if they can share the original message through some secure channel? That isn't even a signature, let alone encryption
[–] O_H_E 7y ago ↗ I am failing to recognise the use case (Beside the learning dimension which is great).
[–] notahappycamper 7y ago ↗ So it only provides repudiation of the sender, and only if they can share the original message through some secure channel? That isn't even a signature, let alone encryption
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