Jessica Augustus and Inkblotest on June 5, 2014 “Reset The Net!” is a broad coalition of many businesses, organizations, and individuals. We’re empowering people to protect themselves on the Internet by using end-to-end encryption. Least Authority is a team of computer security professionals dedicated to providing freedom-compatible storage. For us that means end-to-end-encryption and Free
Taylor Hornby on June 2, 2014 At Least Authority, our mission is to bring verifiable end-to-end security to everyone. As a part of this mission, we provide security consulting services to free and open-source software projects. We also run a verifiably-secure cloud backup system, S4. In the past, we’ve performed successful security audits of SpiderOak’s
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn on April 2, 2014 This is the second post in our series about security audits of Free and Open Source end-to-end encryption software. The first post in the series was about our security audit of SpiderOak’s crypton project. Our mission at LeastAuthority is to bring verifiable end-to-end security to
Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn on March 21, 2014 Best read while listening to Daft Punk: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Why use BLAKE2 instead of Skein, Keccak (SHA-3), MD5, or SHA-1 as a secure hash function? BLAKE was the best-rated hash function in the SHA-3 competition NIST, in the final report of the SHA-3 competition, said this about
By Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn S4 simple secure storage service, we also run a security consulting business. We Least Authoritarians have extensive experience in security and cryptography, and other companies pay us to analyze the security of their protocols and software. Almost all of our consulting clients are making Free and Open
Karen Rustad on November 6, 2013 Least Authority Enterprises has joined the ranks of the licensees of the Open Invention Network! Open Invention Network maintains a royalty-free patent pool that anyone who agrees to never assert patent claims against the Linux kernel can use. This both gives Linux a retaliatory weapon against future patent trolls
The next LAFS summit starts next Monday, November 11! When: Monday 11-Nov-2013 (afternoon only) Tuesday 12-Nov 2013 (all day) Wednesday 13-Nov-2013 (all day) Where: The Mozilla SF Office, 2 Harrison (at Embarcadero) Who: at least Brian and Daira, plus everyone else who can make it We’ll have drinks and snacks, wifi, and an
Karen Rustad on November 6, 2013 The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s tech blog has some lovely things to say about LAFS at S4. Snippet: Tahoe’s protections against third-party snooping and deletion have the kind of strong mathematical guarantees that reassure security experts that Tahoe-LAFS is well-defended against certain kinds of attack. That