magikarp

> There's no real controversy or drama here. There's just one guy who is very vocal.

Isn't that how tech-centered controversies work? Especially in cryptography.

Fantastic work, Chris! It's really great to see that ChatSecure has such an ambitious roadmap.

Well, it is a client-side encryption app. If the encryption, public key authentication, etc. is being done well on the client, then the server's only purpose should be routing garbled ciphertext between users and managing things like login, etc.

What about the Surface Pro 3?

Fingerprints are for verifying your own identity in the group chat context. They confirm your own identity to others.

It's hard for new users to understand this — the blog post mentions that Cryptocat is trying to make cryptographic authentication less confusing.

> (HN is a YC marketing arm, he runs the website and can do whatever he wants, etc, etc).

HN is much more than a marketing arm — it's one of the most central forums for programmer discussions today. And this makes it YC's responsibility to treat it as such.

What PG is saying is that HN can be used to criticize anyone except companies backed by YC. That's unacceptable.

Everything you've said in your comment is good advice. Once the paper I've mentioned is ready, we will have this kind of implementation.

A Chinese spy manages to steal the last 50MB of the Lisp program governing U.S. missile launches. Fortunately, it was all closing parentheses.