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		TheDong on Sept 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Alleged leak of more than 5M Gmail accounts He did not say web or browser. He said nodejs. Node can call native crypto libraries, but also is not subject to the mitm issue. Please read up on what "nodejs" is before lambasting it with an oft repeated security trope.

nzadrozny on Sept 15, 2014 [–]

> He did not say web or browser. He said nodejs.

Indeed; more generally, I said CLI. TLDR of the previous link: it's an interesting general-purpose take on using ssh public/private keys (and methods) to sign and authenticate HTTP requests.

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