[HN Gopher] Pitfalls of rolling your own E2EE protocol
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       Pitfalls of rolling your own E2EE protocol
        
       Author : SP2njsPl2WmlAwM
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2021-08-14 12:32 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (pwn.recipes)
 (TXT) w3m dump (pwn.recipes)
        
       | mtlynch wrote:
       | Friendly feedback, I think you'll attract more readers if you
       | take the time to introduce the reader to the subject you're
       | describing.
       | 
       | The article says it's a follow-up to a previous post but doesn't
       | link to a previous post. Looking at the post index shows no other
       | posts. That's alienating to readers who haven't read the previous
       | post (which is most readers). You can make the article more
       | accessible by catching the reader up to speed in a few sentences
       | about what they need to know.
       | 
       | The article also never explains what telegra.ph is, and I suspect
       | that 90% or more of HN has never heard of the website. Even if
       | you visit the URL, it's unclear what the website does. Some sort
       | of blogging platform?
        
         | calmingsolitude wrote:
         | From OP's comment on HN from the footer links, the telegra.ph
         | post in question seems to be https://telegra.ph/Reviewing-the-
         | app-behind-My-small-revenge...
        
         | SP2njsPl2WmlAwM wrote:
         | Thanks a lot, that's quite valuable!
         | 
         | I was hoping to introduce both new and old readers with the
         | "Context" section, but it seems I failed at that. The new post
         | contains all of the content of the previous one and extends it
         | a bit, which is why I didn't link the old one.
         | 
         | I removed the "Context" section now and replaced it with two
         | short sentences addressed at readers of the previous post. I
         | hope this makes it easier for new readers.
        
       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | That's a great analysis. I did spot one sentence which seems to
       | use the wrong term though:
       | 
       | > Let participants verify RSA key fingerprints out of bounds
       | 
       | Presumably that should say "out-of-band".
        
         | SP2njsPl2WmlAwM wrote:
         | Thank you! Fixed.
        
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