I built something that solves this problem. It uses an open source program installed on the client to encrypt and store data in a way that doesn't allow the website to access the plaintext data. https://redact.ws
Exactly. This section on the website should explain it with some more detail: https://redact.ws/how-it-works#client
The redact server is an open source application that runs locally on the client.
Not actively. It's open source so feel free to poke around our code and docs, and you can find a contact form on the site as well if you want to chat.
Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this (https://redact.ws). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not…
Aren't the engineers controlling the backend also controlling the frontend? What's stopping the frontend from exfiltrating the encryption keys?
I built something that solves this problem. It uses an open source program installed on the client to encrypt and store data in a way that doesn't allow the website to access the plaintext data. https://redact.ws
Exactly. This section on the website should explain it with some more detail: https://redact.ws/how-it-works#client
The redact server is an open source application that runs locally on the client.
Not actively. It's open source so feel free to poke around our code and docs, and you can find a contact form on the site as well if you want to chat.
Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this (https://redact.ws). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not…
Aren't the engineers controlling the backend also controlling the frontend? What's stopping the frontend from exfiltrating the encryption keys?