Least Authority is excited to present a short comic which explains our Tahoe-LAFS based Simple Secure Storage Service (S4) with a simple narrative illustration. It demonstrates how our products/services provide a more secure alternative to popular online services. To learn more, read on. Special thanks to Sam Hester from The 23rd Story for her brilliant illustrations.
Least Authority performed a security audit of Knot DNS SOS Fund. To read the full report including our findings, click here: Report
In just 10 months from now, companies headquartered in an EU country and all organizations that process data on EU residents will have to comply with the requirements of the GDPR – the EU General Data Protection Regulation. GDPR approved by the EU Parliament on 14th April 2016, is designed to
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 recently performed a security audit of the GNU libmicrohttpd (MHD) library, on behalf of Mozilla’s Secure Open Source Fund. Mozilla’s SOS Fund is
At Least Authority we understand the sensitivity of your data and are committed to ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and reliability as critical components of our products/ service to you. When clients are encoding files, they control several parameters. One of these is called “happiness” (or simply “H”) which tells the client the minimum number of servers that shares must be placed on. We have recently improved the algorithm used to determine share placement. Before we discuss…
We’re excited to announce that very soon we are launching a new enhancement to our Simple Secure Storage Service (S4) – “Gridsync” – a new cross-platform desktop application which provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to S4 and is easier to use than Tahoe-LAFS command line interface (CLI). Least Authority’s goal is to build an affordable,
A few months ago, Least Authority ran user-testing sessions to get a sense of what our potential users think about our products – S4, our current Amazon S3 based application of Tahoe-LAFS and Gridsync, our forthcoming graphical user interface for S4 and Tahoe-LAFS. In addition to getting valuable feedback, it was interesting to
Meejah and David Stainton on April 21, 2017 The users of Tahoe-LAFS – a project that aims to provide Free and Open decentralized cloud storage system – now get additional Magic Folders features. In January 2017, the open source project released version 1.12.0, which brings Least Authority’s Magic Folders v1.0 into Tahoe-LAFS. Members