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Thomas von Dein
Personal blog · daemon.de/blogprogrammingsecurity
Thomas von Dein's personal blog at daemon.de covers programming and security. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “AirChat radio code review”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Thomas von Dein's blog for a 2014 code review of Lulzlab's AirChat, which found hardcoded keys in its symmetric encryption mode. The blog also hosts his NOTE tool.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Welcome to daemon.de! This is the personal homepage of Thomas von Dein. I am a german open source developer, network and unix sysadmin. I live on an island far away. I maintain a couple of open source software projects written in Golang, C, Perl and emacs-lisp. I am an avid Emacs user and wrote a co
Most-linked posts?
- AirChat radio code review2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-02
What Hacker News says?
There is a good initial code review which points out the alarming bug that keys are _hardcoded_ in the symmetrical encoding mode, and can be found in the source! "Basically the script encrypts a randomly generated ephemeral key using RSA but then ignores it and uses the above hardcoded key for symmetric encryption." [1] http://www.daemon.de/blog/2014/04/25/351/code-review-lulzlab...
Comment linking /blog/2014/04/25/351/code-review-lulzlabs-radio-airchat/
on “Lulzlabs AirChat: Free Communications For Everyone. ”Submitted AirChat radio code review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYet another note taking tool I use: http://www.daemon.de/NOTE It features encryption and is more useful than I thought before trying out.
Comment linking /NOTE
on “A simple, fully featured command line note taking tool written in Rust”