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kenjikato | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What free-to-use software inspires you?

The software you are probably using right now to view and/or edit this post. The web browser.

It's the most amazing piece of free software that we all use almost every day, regardless of the platform or browser you use. Web browsers across the board are an amazing piece of software that's been in development in one way, shape, or form since the early '90s. Thousands of people have worked on them or contributed code, and they provide access to the bounty of the internet for nothing. Show me something more inspiring than that.

kenjikato | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best practices to encrypt user data in transit?

This is kind of a loaded and open ended question. Without knowing something about the architecture, or what your goals are it's hard to answer.

Is this for a web page or web app, native iOS/Android app, desktop app?

Is this for Client/Server or P2P?

Are you sending files that can be encrypted, or is it a real time connection link of some sort?

In general, you can use TLS/SSL (as mentioned by @bigiain), but there are other use cases where you might want to do something more specialized.