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Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out

Post author By Soatok
Post date November 5, 2021
11 Comments on Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out

Threema boldly claims to be more secure than Signal. Does this hold up to scrutiny?

Tags cryptography, Online Privacy, privacy, private messaging, symmetric cryptography, Threema, Vulnerability, Zero-Day

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Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption

Post author By Soatok
Post date November 14, 2020
10 Comments on Going Bark: A Furry’s Guide to End-to-End Encryption

Governments are back on their anti-encryption bullshit again. Between the U.S. Senate’s “EARN IT” Act, the E.U.’s slew of anti-encryption proposals, and Australia’s new anti-encryption law, it’s become clear that the authoritarians in office view online privacy as a threat to their existence. Normally, when the governments increase their anti-privacy sabre-rattling, technologists start talking more […]

Tags authenticated encryption, authenticated key exchange, crypto, cryptography, encryption, end-to-end encryption, libsodium, Online Privacy, privacy, Security Guidance, symmetric encryption