# Aloha But Not

DevFeed: [Aloha But Not](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/aloha-but-not-1731.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://signal.org/blog/aloha-but-not/>)

Published: 2015-01-23T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Signal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/signal-blog.md>)

Topics: [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Security, Privacy and Abuse Prevention](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security-privacy-and-abuse-prevention.md>), [Cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cryptography.md>), [iOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ios.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [Networks](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networks.md>), [Ratchet](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ratchet.md>), [ChaCha](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chacha-cipher.md>), [Hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hackathon.md>)

Tags: [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [bugs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bugs.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [cryptography](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cryptography.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [hackathon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hackathon.md>), [ios](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ios.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>)

## AI overview

The article recounts the author's path from building an anonymous, secure protest-communication app at a university hackathon to working on Signal. It describes learning iOS development, secure protocols, anonymous networks, elliptic curve cryptography, and the axolotl ratchet while implementing media attachments and fixing bugs for Signal 2.0.

## Source excerpt

Winter Break Of Code Day Eleven Every morning at standup I'd watch the knife spin in slow motion, dread filling my chest and a voice in my head repeating, over and over, "not Slytherin." (The target of the knife is the author of the next day's blog post). I wasn't sure that I could find new ways to marvel at the wonderful absurdity of stepping on a plane and trading reality for this - a chance to work on the world with a group of people that I've only admired from afar. I wasn't sure that I had anything to say that hadn't already been said by my new friends. Read more...