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ecurvechat
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vaktibabat / ecurvechat

ecurvechat

An Elliptic-Curve Based Secure Chat, written using Rust and Protobuf!

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
53GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

An Elliptic-Curve Based Secure Chat, written using Rust and Protobuf!

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-09-19 18:22:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 21:57:58 UTC.

012024-09-19 18:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsSep 19, 18:002024-09-19 19:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 19, 19:002024-09-19 20:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-19 21:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-19 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 19, 21:00

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Sep 19, 18:002024-09-19 18:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 19:00:00 UTC110
Sep 19, 19:002024-09-19 19:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 20:00:00 UTC000
Sep 19, 20:002024-09-19 20:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 21:00:00 UTC000
Sep 19, 21:002024-09-19 21:00:00 UTC2024-09-19 22:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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First of all, nice work! Learning by doing is great, especially with cryptography. Some observations from a very quick scan: 1. You should include a disclaimer somewhere in the repo that this is an educational project, not something people should seriously use. This is the "escape hatch" for the "don't roll your own crypto" rule. 2. You're rolling your own curve math, including ECDH and ECDSA. These are not easy to get right; in particular, it looks like you've got a classic "attacker can send you a point not on the curve" bug here[1], unless I'm missing where you validate the other party's point. 3. Your protocol seems to allow variance over the curve parameters, which is notoriously dangerous (and is why X.509 and similar protocols prefer "named curve" sets over explicit parameter sets). [1]: https://github.com/vaktibabat/ecurvechat/blo
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