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   by starekrow 9y ago

   When I did the first pass at this architecture about 6 years ago, we had a few servers in a rack at a local datacenter as well as virtual servers at Rackspace and AWS. Since then, I haven't shed the habit of designing for the general c
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   by starekrow 9y ago

   Why not? :D More seriously, because LAMP stacks are ubiquitous, well understood and well supported by vendors. Also, the output of this code is trivial to use or replicate in most other languages - in fact, I've got some fragments of C
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   by starekrow 9y ago

   I hadn't actually considered adoption at any scale - I just thought the overall approach was cool, and the code might be useful to folks looking for this exact thing. The PSRs were lurking in the back of my thoughts during the cleanup
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   by starekrow 9y ago

   I use it to store database passwords and AWS API keys on EC2 instances that are running web servers. When combined with a dead simple key distribution client/server setup, you can sleep a bit better knowing that even if someone managed
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   by starekrow 9y ago

   Ack. You are absolutely right, that was my own copy/paste issue. Fixed now, thanks!
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   Show HN: Lockbox – simple encryption with key management(github.com)

   25 points by starekrow 9y ago|14 comments