Halite
Security and privacy
encryption library
SHOW HN2016
43points
10comments
#817of 2,264 in 2016
Top 37%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Design: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
High quality project and work
From 1 comment
Just wanted to give OP, CiPHPerCoder, a shoutout. His work is all really high quality and he works very hard. Halite is great for the PHP crypto crowd (if you are unfortunate…
ejcx on HN
Excellent readme
From 1 comment
Right. Still, after your last edit, the last section (the example with a password derived key) -- still stands out from the rest of the otherwise excellent readme -- in that it's…
e12e on HN
Objections
README lacks clear guidance on salt storage and password-derived key example
From 2 comments
Looks nice on the surface. The only thing that leaps out at me from the readme, is the lack of a suggested way to store/recover the salt? Ideally I'd see a function that takes a…
e12e on HNRight. Still, after your last edit, the last section (the example with a password derived key) -- still stands out from the rest of the otherwise excellent readme -- in that it's…
e12e on HN
PHP 7+ only excludes many PHP projects
From 1 comment
This looks really great, but I have to ask: why only support for PHP 7+? Is there any plan to support PHP 5.x? With only PHP 7+ it's more or less unusable in the large majority…
akie on HN
Requests
Add a high-level password-based encrypt/decrypt function
From 1 comment
Looks nice on the surface. The only thing that leaps out at me from the readme, is the lack of a suggested way to store/recover the salt? Ideally I'd see a function that takes a…
e12e on HN
Questions
Why only PHP 7 support?
From 1 comment
This looks really great, but I have to ask: why only support for PHP 7+? Is there any plan to support PHP 5.x? With only PHP 7+ it's more or less unusable in the large majority…
akie on HN