Streamlining TextSecure Settings
Spring Break Of Code, Day ThreeI am no stranger to Hawaii. Although I’ve never lived here myself, I’ve visited the islands perhaps a dozen times. My grandmother and my father were born and raised here....
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Spring Break Of Code, Day FourThe main sound on top of the ocean is the click clack of laptop keys, and the jangle of test calls and SMSes. A neighbor stopped by to comment that we must be the next...
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All The Things That Pull And Push
Spring Break Of Code, Day FiveI know very well that each and every crisis of modernity is concentrating, concatenating, and seating more deeply into everyday life. I know the struggles of the world’s...
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Spring Break Of Code, Day SixBecause secure systems aren’t valuable if they’re not used, Whisper Systems has always focused on delivering strong cryptography alongside a great user experience. That’s...
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SBoC Farewell
The last code committed, the final waves surfed in to the shore, the closing sunset of Spring Break Of Code.
View ArticleInterested in privacy-enhancing technology? How to get involved at Open...
Open Whisper Systems is a project focused on developing Open Source security and privacy apps for the mobile environment. With all of the recent discussion about PRISM, Boundless Informant, and FISA...
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Simplifying OTR deniability.
At Open Whisper Systems we help develop TextSecure, an encrypted chat application for Android. TextSecure was designed as a general purpose SMS/MMS client which would also automatically encrypt...
View ArticleForward Secrecy for Asynchronous Messages
Traditionally, asynchronous messaging systems such as email have relied on protocols like PGP or S/MIME for cryptographic security. These protocols work the way most people are familiar with: one who...
View ArticleOpen Whisper Systems Alpine Hackathon
From October 11th to October 13th, we’ll be hosting an informal Open Whisper Systems Alpine Hackathon for those in or around Zurich, Switzerland who would like to contribute to Open Whisper...
View ArticleAlpine Hackathon Reportback
My cell phone used to be a black and white Nokia until a couple of weeks ago when I decided to enter in the smartphone world. Now that there are more mobile devices connected to the internet than...
View ArticleWinter Break Of Code
At Open Whisper Systems, we’re focused on creating easy-to-use privacy-enhancing technology. Our projects are free, Open Source, and tend to be oriented around the mobile environment. We’ve been...
View ArticleAdvanced cryptographic ratcheting
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been working on improving our encrypted asynchronous chat protocol for TextSecure. The TextSecure protocol was originally a derivative of OTR, with minor changes to...
View ArticleTextSecure, Now With 10 Million More Users
At Open Whisper Systems, we’re working to both advance the state of the art for secure communication and also reduce the friction required for ordinary people to make use of it. We want everyone to...
View ArticleWBoC Lineup
After our wonderful experience with Spring Break Of Code, we were excited to try this again. Even with high expectations based on our experience in the Spring, the response was still better than what...
View ArticleBitHub = Bitcoin + GitHub. An experiment in funding privacy OSS.
At Open Whisper Systems, we often get emails from people who’d like to donate money to the project. For an OSS project, particularly one that aspires to a collective sense of ownership, handling...
View ArticleThe Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery
Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox...
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Roosters and a mountain of design
Winter Break of Code, Day OneThe Winter Break of Code, being closely linked by name to the season of Winter, began with a calm trickle of ex{hausted,cited} people carrying laptops and cell phone...
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Better than cake
Winter Break of Code, Day TwoBy all rights, I should not be here. My application was last-minute to say the least, and little more than a casual note that I’d be down to reprise my role from SBoC as...
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Design of Crypto
Winter Break of Code, Day ThreeWe are at the halfway point of Winter Break of Code. We have two homes near the beach shared by 12 people. 10 of us are working on the apps & website and 2 are...
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