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Why? It makes it easy to share a sketch with someone else while still preventing the server from decrypting the data. Anything stored in a location hash (after
by henriquez 7y ago
Why? It makes it easy to share a sketch with someone else while still preventing the server from decrypting the data. Anything stored in a location hash (after the # symbol) does not get passed to the server.
The threat model the author tried to work around is not the user dumbly compromising their own work. The author wants to prevent proprietary and PII data from being stored on their own server. End-to-end encryption significantly reduces the author's potential liability hosting something like this in case something goes wrong.
- inetknght 7y ago> Why? It makes it easy to share a sketch with someone else while still preventing the server from decrypting the data. Anything stored in a location hash (after the # symbol) does not get passed to the server. I'll hit the URL bar and hit control-C. That's way better than any javashit which wants to touch my clipboard. Copying the current URL also copies the key in that case. Now I'm accidentally sharing my encryption information with another user.
- henriquez 7y agoThat's literally the use-case of pasting the link to your sketch to someone. The app itself is not touching your clipboard. Take a careful look at how this works, it's perfectly innocuous.
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