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		forgotpwtomain on June 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Horcrux: A Password Manager for Paranoids > A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did. Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be reading the NodeJS code, or just checking the theoretical soundness of the paper? I'm not so certain about the former...

pbsd on June 21, 2017 | [–]

Almost certainly not the former, no. At best the code would be "supplementary material", which reviewers are not required to go over.

tptacek on June 20, 2017 | [–]

You absolutely need both skills.

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