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geezk7on Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?

Transparent File Cryptography with EasyPG

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keeping-secrets-in-em...

geezk7on Intermediate Vim tips

Do you even emacs bro?

geezk7on FoldingText – Plain text productivity for Mac users

Do you even emacs bro?

geezk7on CoderPad – Interviewing Platform for Programmers

Do you even emacs+tramp bro?

geezk7on SecureLogin Authentication Protocol 1.0

homakov, a lot of work need to be done:

TLDR. Your technical writing is bad and it is putting lots of people off.

1. Learn to write arguments properly. Your claims are outright wrong and ridiculous. You provided no strong evidence thus just reading your blog post put off lots of people.

Examples:

"It is production-ready to be used by four Billion people by tomorrow morning" -> no, it is not. You are underestimating the time complexity of integrating your project with existing apps. Show me how many people are using SecureLogin 24 hours from now? By the way "tomorrow morning" without an exact date is vague.

"terrible usability. First one offers you to write down backup codes on a paper (which I never did)" -> use your personal anecdote as an evidence is not strong unless you show me statistics of how many people who wrote down backup code (I did).

2. Learn to write protocol documentation properly. At least include a figure of the protocol flow and pointer to your code location. No matter how interesting is your concept, many people will be put off digging through your github project to understand the protocol. Not everyone is familiar with Javascript.

geezk7on Using Ordered Markov Chains and User Information to Speed Up Password Cracking

Another way is to use probabilistic graphical models. The paper "Personalized password guessing: A new security threat" addressed this threat several years ago.

https://experts.illinois.edu/en/publications/personalized-pa...