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		sorbus on Aug 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cryptocat: webchat with client-side encryption fea... That the implementation of an encryption library in Javascript is not a reason to mistrust services which use that library?

tptacek on Aug 7, 2011 [–]

It isn't evidence of that. Implementation in browser JS is in fact a reason to distrust a cryptosystem.

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