Show HN: Place to hang out with your friends while staring your computer screen (spend-a-day.at) 7 points by tkoski 11y ago ↗ HN
[–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ "Creator" here. :)Happy to answer any questions if some. [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Idea of the service is that one can create a ad-hoc urls and invite friends to chat. No need to register. [–] pmoorcraft 11y ago ↗ Just realized I don't actually have to give my email address- Nice site [–] pmoorcraft 11y ago ↗ I was interested by the title but since there's no information in the actual website, I'm weary of giving my email address- What is this actually about? [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Yeah, it does not ask for any information at all. Just decide what you want your place to be called. [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ I updated the front page text. Any better / clear? [–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ Idea: add SSL and client-side symmetric key cryptography, while not saving the passphrase anywhere. [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ SSL is on the "short TODO list" (service still in proof of concept stage) so SSL should be implemented/enabled soon.I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best. [–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_StandardIt shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Thanks.
[–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Idea of the service is that one can create a ad-hoc urls and invite friends to chat. No need to register. [–] pmoorcraft 11y ago ↗ Just realized I don't actually have to give my email address- Nice site
[–] pmoorcraft 11y ago ↗ I was interested by the title but since there's no information in the actual website, I'm weary of giving my email address- What is this actually about? [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Yeah, it does not ask for any information at all. Just decide what you want your place to be called. [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ I updated the front page text. Any better / clear?
[–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Yeah, it does not ask for any information at all. Just decide what you want your place to be called.
[–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ Idea: add SSL and client-side symmetric key cryptography, while not saving the passphrase anywhere. [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ SSL is on the "short TODO list" (service still in proof of concept stage) so SSL should be implemented/enabled soon.I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best. [–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_StandardIt shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Thanks.
[–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ SSL is on the "short TODO list" (service still in proof of concept stage) so SSL should be implemented/enabled soon.I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best. [–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_StandardIt shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Thanks.
[–] rvikmanis 11y ago ↗ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_StandardIt shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes [–] tkoski 11y ago ↗ Thanks.
[–] mp4box 11y ago ↗ Warning: xsshttp://spend-a-day.at/scriptalertxssscriptYou might wanna sanitize the room name and username fields. [–] koski 11y ago ↗ Will do. I was sure yhere were so.e of those left. Thanks for the hint.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 41.8 ms ] threadHappy to answer any questions if some.
I need to study more about symmetric key cryptography. Any good hints from where to learn about it the best.
It shouldn't be too hard to find a JS implementation. For instance: https://github.com/mdp/gibberish-aes
http://spend-a-day.at/scriptalertxssscript
You might wanna sanitize the room name and username fields.