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by therockspush 1226 days ago
Looks awesome and I've already shown it to a few folks.

I'd avoid the "military grade" encryption marketing part though. For a lot of people, "military grade" means lowest bidder.

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Military grade is bullshit to me.

If I were ever writing a recommendation I would go with "industry standard" or "industry best practise" both almost equally meaningless. But still more valid, specially in financial system. As with standards you can't be blamed for doing it wrong.

I don't think most people think that, but I would say that the target market for this service would tend to suspect such an ambiguous term. I'd just specify the actual encryption algorithm (AES-256 I assume, which is frequently what is meant by "military grade")
there is no military grade. there is NSA Suite A and Suite B, and one of them doesn't even have any published specification
Thanks! Fixed!