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cracked-behem
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cracked-behem
3y ago
I built something that solves this problem. It uses an open source program installed on the client to encrypt and store data in a way that doesn't allow the website to access the plaintext data. https://redact.ws
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cracked-behem
3y ago
Exactly. This section on the website should explain it with some more detail: https://redact.ws/how-it-works#client
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cracked-behem
3y ago
The redact server is an open source application that runs locally on the client.
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cracked-behem
3y ago
Not actively. It's open source so feel free to poke around our code and docs, and you can find a contact form on the site as well if you want to chat.
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cracked-behem
3y ago
Nice! I worked on something that seems similar to this ( https://redact.ws ). Unfortunately there are a lot of challenges with adoption that seem difficult to overcome. One of the big challenges is that most people do not understa
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cracked-behem
4y ago
Aren't the engineers controlling the backend also controlling the frontend? What's stopping the frontend from exfiltrating the encryption keys?