Aes.vbs
Security and privacy
encryption library
SHOW HN2019
13points
7comments
#1,539of 2,195 in 2019
Top 71%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting to see a VBScript project on HN
From 1 comment
Nice work. I don't know much about the cryptography to comment on whether this is a good implementation or not, but it's cool to see a VBScript link on Hacker News! :-)
amanzi on HN
Objections
AES-CBC used without an authentication tag; should use Encrypt-then-MAC
From 1 comment
If you're gonna use AES-CBC then please use Encrypt-then-MAC. Now you're performing encryption without an authentication tag (HMAC), also known as…
rickette on HN
Requests
Add HMAC authentication to encryption
From 1 comment
If you're gonna use AES-CBC then please use Encrypt-then-MAC. Now you're performing encryption without an authentication tag (HMAC), also known as…
rickette on HN
Questions
Why is this on HN?
From 1 comment
Nice, but why is this on HN?
jsilence on HN