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Show HN: Messaging App
- garyhbutton 7y agoI made a little desktop end to end encrypted messaging app
- parliament32 7y agoWhy?
- garyhbutton 7y agoI wanted to send my tax person my documents but he used email which I am a little uncomfortable using so I figured I could build an app
- g105b 7y agoReminds me of _The General Problem_ [1]. [1]: https://www.xkcd.com/974/ https://www.xkcd.com/974/
- garyhbutton 7y agolol
- asdfasdf1231 7y agoend to end without self hosted open source servers have (among others) a tradeoff: either opaque server you can't trust at all, or no offline messages. Which one you decided on?
- garyhbutton 7y agoI was thinking of making the client code open source (eventually) so that users can know that their privacy is respected
- asdfasdf1231 7y agoSo you choose opaque server. At least do not hide the offline validation as deep as whatsapp and others do. also work with linux/android distros do distribute the built from source client. otherwise, it's just more of the same
- bananocurrency 7y agoyou might as well name it malware.exe if it's going to be such a blackbox.
- mdni007 7y agoHow did this reach this high on HN? Also source?
- garyhbutton 7y agoI do not know. What source?
- _august 7y agocode
- garyhbutton 7y agoHere is the client source code: https://github.com/ghbutton/iron-client https://github.com/ghbutton/iron-client
- bobblywobbles 7y agoI wish you luck on your app!
- garyhbutton 7y agoThanks!