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My startup company is joining "Reset The Net" by deploying an upgrade to our encrypted cloud storage product and cutting the price in half: https://leastauthority.com/blog/

Speaking of the vulnerabilities that our team found, here is our blog post about it and a link to our report and the github issue tickets that we opened: Here is our blog post abou…

Here is our blog post about our audit of Cryptocat, which was also announced today: https://leastauthority.com/blog/

Oh, and here's the Open Technology Fund's comment: https://www.opentechfund.org/article/bringing-openness-secur...

We at LeastAuthority have written a blog post about the Cryptocat audit from our perspective: https://leastauthority.com/blog/

Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm proud of our work on the Crypton audit, and I hope you have a chance to look at our report at some point: https://spideroak.com/share/PFXW…

I just posted a comment on the SpiderOak blog about how I was rather startled when I found out that they had waited until after we did the security audit before they informed us th…

You could consider using Tahoe-LAFS instead of BitTorrent sync. Tahoe-LAFS is open source and stable, but it isn't a clone of btsync, and it might not fit for your purposes.

Taylor Hornby has written a good introductory explanation of the Known Plaintext Attack model and the more powerful attack models, in the context of the Telegram cracking contest: …

Thanks for sponsoring the Telegram product. (Even though I think what they are trying to do could be done much better.) Could you please ask the Telegram team to post the exact con…

Somebody pointed out to me that this isn't reddit, but hackernews. Oops, sorry.

Dear makers and backers of Telegram: Perhaps in response to my requests ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933179 , https://twitter.com/zooko/status/413552420522708993 , https…

Could you show us examples of the actual message sent each day from Paul to Nick, except with the secret email address XXX'ed out? Is it the same message each day, or different?

That's the evolution Python went through as well: reference counting, then (in CPython 2.0) an adjunct cycle-collector, then (in PyPy) a non-reference-counting garbage collector. H…