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I opened your link and don't know what it does.
by LtWorf 3y ago
I opened your link and don't know what it does.
- bo0tzz 3y agoIt says what it does in the first sentence on the page. > Monocypher is an easy-to-use crypto library.
- marcellus23 3y agoYep, and if you don't know what a crypto library is, the Features list does a very good job enumerating all the things the library lets you do. I have no idea what the GP is talking about.
- jholman 3y agoA warrior does not trifle with secret messages! Have you no honour?
- loup-vaillant 3y agoEdit: Oops, replied to the wrong user. Diplacing it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39375470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39375470
- marcellus23 3y agoI think you misunderstood my comment. I'm not saying that I don't understand what your library does.
- loup-vaillant 3y agoOh crap, I meant to reply to @LtWorf, and somehow botched it. I’m moving my comment, let’s say no one will ever know.
- marcellus23 3y agoI won't tell if you don't ;)
- loup-vaillant 3y agoThen you're (unfortunately) not quite the target audience. Broadly speaking my library lets you secure communications and authenticate stuff. It does not however provides a turnkey solution for most of that. It has signatures, but no certificates. It has key exchange, but no protocol handshake. Thus as it is, it requires some familiarity with cryptography. At your (apparent) level of understanding, you're probably better off reaching for a higher-level alternative, possibly even full applications like Age (that let you encrypts files), or Signify (that let you sign files).