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secretdiary
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franciscop / secretdiary

secretdiary

Script to create and store secret entries.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
0GitHub stars
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What it is

Script to create and store secret entries.

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Observed mentions: 2015-03-16 18:54:35 UTC to 2015-03-16 19:14:13 UTC.

012015-03-16 18:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-16 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 16, 18:002015-03-16 19:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-16 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMar 16, 19:00

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Mar 16, 18:002015-03-16 18:00:00 UTC2015-03-16 19:00:00 UTC101
Mar 16, 19:002015-03-16 19:00:00 UTC2015-03-16 20:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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> MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 I hope you realize this isn't AES-256. I strongly encourage you and anyone else who wants to play with encryption in PHP to just use https://github.com/defuse/php-encryption Also, encryption isn't authentication. You'll probably quickly hear about Moxie Marlinspike's Cryptographic Doom Principle from others. Basically it means that you should be authenticating your ciphertexts. Welcome to crypto, a lot can go wrong and some people have very strong opinions about it. I highly recommend taking the time to go through the challenges on cryptopals.com (by the fine folks at Matasano) and learn more about it. :) EDIT: https://github.com/FranciscoP/secretdiary/blob/d5a04a7053597... In your library, you're using ECB mode, with an IV, and not MACing anything...
In Show HN: Online journal that encrypts entries with a cipher
Hello, I created some time ago http://secretdiary.org/ [now deleted]. It was basically the same idea but implemented server-side since that was what I wanted to learn at the moment, using the encryption MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_256 from PHP [1] I think that the double encryption is not needed, but since I am not an expert (just an enthusiast) I dig in the past about it and the experts and enthusiasts say the same [2][3] I just re-bought the name so that no one could buy it when I made it public. If you want it, I have no problem in giving it for free since it reminds me a lot to my project and I think the name could be more suitable and you are indeed much more advanced that my project ever was and actively developing it (: [1] https://github.com/FranciscoP/secretdiary [2] http://security.stackexchange.com/a/32260/9161 [3] http://www.reddit.com/r/
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