[liberationtech] What I've learned from Cryptocat

[Eleanor Saitta]

On 2012.08.06 18.06, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
> Eleanor Saitta:
>> On 2012.08.06 17.54, xmux wrote:
>>> On 08/06/2012 08:50 PM, Nadim Kobeissi wrote:
>>>> Suggestions welcome!!
>>>
>>> Don't provide the insecure version at all?  How many people use the
>>> Chrome plugin vs. the website version currently?
>>
>> The "insecure" version is currently the only thing which is interesting
>> about cryptocat.  (And, to be clear, the secure version does not yet
>> exist; when it does, it will be marginally interesting at best when
>> compared with the less secure version which fills a much needed position
>> within an ecosystem of tools.)
> 
> Huh? The "more secure" version is the current chrome plugin.

Sorry, I didn't realize that there was already a shipping chrome plugin
version -- I'd assumed that threat modeling and the like were happening
before development on the next version started.

E.

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