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That's an interesting take on this! I often work on small projects for mildly decentralized / storage stuff. Often i have the need to encrypt this stuff in vari

That's an interesting take on this! I often work on small projects for mildly decentralized / storage stuff. Often i have the need to encrypt this stuff in various ways and i am disappointed by the tools available to me. I feel like i have so many tools for amazing feats of engineering with minimal understanding required (which may not be a good thing lol), but Crypto tools and/or advice always seems to suggest you shouldn't use crypto at all if you don't know what you're doing. Eg if i write some storage application that fits my needs, and i want to add encryption for the data at rest - i often find the environment (crypto tooling and communities) hostile. Hostile to encrypting something without knowing enough to be competent. I get why crypto communities/tooling are afraid of informed-idiots (as i self describe), but i view it as a failing of the environment not the informed-idiot. Do you see your angle on this as something that could lower the barrier to entry for informed idiots just wanting to _use_ crypto? Ie the fact that Crypto Wallets/Coins have standardized and simplified a lot Crypto-related UXs, do you see that impacting common software usecases for encryption / signing?

vmception 6y ago
yes crypto wallets can help, although if you want to go deeper this direction, I would say it is important not to use crypto in "encryption" and "digital asset" contexts without further elaboration on which one you are talking about. reason being that its not clear if you are confusing the contexts or if the reader is. to the delight of cryptography aficionados who may not like the newer asset-based context, it looks like you did it correctly, but people in the crypto-asset space have abstracted the cryptography aspect so well that they would be confused. the downside is that you will likely be relegating yourself to just the crypto-asset market, which has its own nuances as well as being a general anathema to some of your potential supporters who just want to ramble incoherently against crypto-assets. fortunately, in crypto-assets your small project with just a few hundred users will probably make orders of magnitude more money than your big project with hundreds of thousands of users. could you have just used a database? maaaaybe could you have just made a lot of money while lowering your overhead costs by offloading your entire backend to the wallet and blockchain? definitely

vmception 6y ago

yes crypto wallets can help, although if you want to go deeper this direction, I would say it is important not to use crypto in "encryption" and "digital asset" contexts without further elaboration on which one you are talking about. reason being that its not clear if you are confusing the contexts or if the reader is. to the delight of cryptography aficionados who may not like the newer asset-based context, it looks like you did it correctly, but people in the crypto-asset space have abstracted the cryptography aspect so well that they would be confused. the downside is that you will likely be relegating yourself to just the crypto-asset market, which has its own nuances as well as being a general anathema to some of your potential supporters who just want to ramble incoherently against crypto-assets. fortunately, in crypto-assets your small project with just a few hundred users will probably make orders of magnitude more money than your big project with hundreds of thousands of users. could you have just used a database? maaaaybe could you have just made a lot of money while lowering your overhead costs by offloading your entire backend to the wallet and blockchain? definitely