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Project Update: Tahoe-LAFS for Human Rights Defenders

This summer, Least Authority has been wrapping up our project funded by the Open Technology Fund (OTF) to make Tahoe-LAFS a more usable tool for human rights organizations. (Read about the background on this project in our earlier post.) While secure file storage is a necessity for most everyone, human

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Metastate AG – Multi-Asset Shielded Pool for Tezos Foundation

Tezos Foundation has requested that Least Authority perform a security audit of the Metastate Extension of the Electric Coin Company’s (ECC) Sapling circuit, a user-defined asset extension that allows the shielded pool to support many denominations at once. Our final audit report was completed on August 18, 2020. To read

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Band Protocol – BandChain Cosmos-SDK Oracle Module

Band Protocol has requested that Least Authority perform a security audit of the BandChain Cosmos-SDK oracle module in the BandChain chain directory. Bandchain is a Decentralized Data Delivery Network (D3N) built on Cosmos-SDK. BandChain aims to connect public blockchains with off-chain information and aims to achieve the following design goals:

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We’re upgrading Magic Wormhole to Magic Wormhole for All

The Problem Sending a file from one computer to another is common and should be simple, but it can be surprisingly complicated, even in 2020. This simple-yet-complicated user story is illustrated in xkcd comic #949. How should you send a file from your computer to someone else’s computer? What security

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