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| Cryptographic Right Answers (latacora.singles) | ||
| recommended by 1 user | 2018 | 340 points by louis-paul | cryptography | original thread | | ||
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| bigiain Apr 10, 2018 | on: Ask HN: Best practices to encrypt user data in transit? | context |
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In transit? Unless you know why you need something else - just use TLS. If you get to choose (as in - do not need to support WinXP/IE6/Android versions < 4.4) - select TLS1.2 with "safe/modern" cyphers.
Read the "website security" and "client server application security" sections of this and choose the advice closest to your project needs:
http://latacora.singles/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right-answe...
and the discussion of that from last week:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16748400
The great advice there is "Let AWS AELB handle it for you".