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by squidlogic 3839 days ago
Probably not to TLS, but TLS is typically solving a different problem than the one people are trying to solve using JS crypto.

One valid use, I think, could be around ensuring you don't pollute your backend with user data to avoid liability.

For example, if you wanted to use a distributed database in your backend and needed guarantees that when you delete data it is deleted everywhere at once, you could use JS crypto to do client-side encryption of the data and only have to delete the key to render the distributed data inert.

I heard about this through an article that was on HN a few weeks back (https://blog.balboa.io/yet-another.html)