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This is excellent! We need more work like this that is standardized and stable. From the protocol end, I heard good things about noise [1] but I haven't seen a
by badrabbit 6y ago
This is excellent! We need more work like this that is standardized and stable.
From the protocol end, I heard good things about noise [1] but I haven't seen acual apps make use of it(Edit: It literaly says "Noise is currently used by WhatsApp, WireGuard, Lightning, and I2P." On their page). I highly encourage the author of saltpack to keep a reference list of projects that make use of saltpack.
[1] http://noiseprotocol.org/ http://noiseprotocol.org/
- niksmac 6y agoI haven't seen any references of Saltpack being used by anybody yet.
- tsukurimashou 6y agodon't know about references but in the footer of the website it says "Saltpack's been in active development by Keybase and collaborators since 2017."
- mmm_grayons 6y agoNoise is a bit different in that it's mostly for creating DH protocols with a reduced chance of shooting oneself in the foot. Saltpack seems like it's a wrapper for AEAD encryption w/nacl's secretboxes that also does serialization via messagepack? I'm not sure I see the point of a "crypto messaging format" that pastes nacl and messagepack together and calls it a standard.
- badrabbit 6y agoI think they're similar in that as you pointer out they reduce the chance of you shooting yourself in the foot. Perhaps a project using noise for data-in-motion and saltpack for data-at-rest(and before transmission) would involve less foot shooting?