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Show HN: I built a safer way to collect KYC documents

by srecio on 8/14/19, 9:36 PM with 2 comments

  • by mrcoles on 8/14/19, 10:35 PM

    Cool project! Also, TIL: KYC = Know Your Customer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer ;P
  • by srecio on 8/14/19, 9:38 PM

    In light of the recent Binance and Capital One hacks, I thought I'd share what I'm working on. It's tool that makes it easier for businesses to collect end-to-end encrypted documents. All s3 buckets only store PGP files so misconfiguration is less disastrous. If a business uploads their public key, then there's no data in the cloud to hack. I learned a lot of awesome JS tricks while working on this. All the encryption is done in the client's browser using OpenPGP.js (which I highly recommend).