infinite-app-cache

Permanently cache a web app with html5 app cache (by feross)

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  • Wormhole-crypto: Streaming encryption based on Encrypted Content-Encoding
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2021
    > the other uses client-server cryptography pretending to be end-to-end

    This is misleading and false. Wormhole.app uses end-to-end encryption. It's factually incorrect to imply otherwise.

    To address the larger point – auditing a web app is indeed challenging with current web technologies. In the past, I experimented with a technique using App Cache to permanently cache a web app on first use [1]. Later, that technique was expanded into hyperboot [2] to give users the benefits of explicit, immutable versioning with control over upgrades using the html-version-spec while preserving the simplicity of passing around a URL.

    With the impending removal of AppCache from most browsers, the web is currently missing a way to "pin" a site to a specific version and only update it with user consent. Service Workers come close but they mandate a 24 hour maximum cache time before refetching from the server.

    We'd love to offer the usability benefits of web apps – you can give someone a URL and they can immediately load the app – with the security of installed apps – doesn't change without warning – once web standards catch up. This is something that I care deeply about.

    In the meantime, use magic-wormhole if you prefer a locally-installed command line tool and you're sending files to someone who understands the command line. Use Wormhole.app if you want usable end-to-end encryption, similar to what Firefox Send used to provide.

    [1]: https://github.com/feross/infinite-app-cache

    [2]: https://github.com/substack/hyperboot

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feross/infinite-app-cache is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of infinite-app-cache is JavaScript.


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