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I'm happy to see an approach to social networking that doesn't require uploading personal data about millions of people into one database.

However, the cryptography in the source code (encrypt.cpp) seems to be hand-made from RSA, SHA1 and RC4 primitives. While I haven't checked details like how they choose their RC4 IVs, I wouldn't trust mortals to get a crypto protocol with PKI right the first time.

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