CLMM on HackerShow

Security and privacy

encryption tool

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An exercise in cryptographic minimalism

Shown by lisper on Jan 22, 2015. Click the card to turn it over.

22points

10comments

#1,164of 2,565 in 2015

Top 46%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Idea: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Small codebase makes it accessible to study
From 1 comment
- > minus the whole WoT part CLMM is not even close to being as featureful as GnuPG. But it does a lot for being <1500 LOC (compare to >200 kLOC for GnuPG). If you want to look…
  lisper on HN

Lacks web of trust and most GnuPG features
From 2 comments
- Yes, minus the whole WoT part. Note also that support for ECC is already there in the latest GnuPG, and Ed25519 is already supported for signatures. The rest is coming:…
  rakoo on HN
- > minus the whole WoT part CLMM is not even close to being as featureful as GnuPG. But it does a lot for being <1500 LOC (compare to >200 kLOC for GnuPG). If you want to look…
  lisper on HN
Fails to build on Linux with default flags; missing warnings and implicit declarations
From 1 comment
- Hi, from a quick glance there seems to be a few problems that should be easy to fix: * You should enable -Wall and -Wextra, there are a few other flags that are usually useful as…
  jdjgldgskjdsjlg on HN

Make it tweetable
From 1 comment
- Any plan to make it tweetable as well? :)
  ecesena on HN

Is it just PGP with a smaller key?
From 1 comment
- Isn't this just similar to PGP but with a smaller public key?
  Fastidious on HN

GnuPG
From 1 comment
- Yes, minus the whole WoT part. Note also that support for ECC is already there in the latest GnuPG, and Ed25519 is already supported for signatures. The rest is coming:…
  rakoo on HN
reop
From 1 comment
- Another project which seems similar in spirit is reop: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/reop
  cpach on HN