We are sure that you have heard about the Heartbleed bug. Heartbleed attacks the heartbeat extension (RFC 6520) implemented in OpenSSL. The official reference to the Heartbleed bug is CVE-2014-0160. We want to give an update about how it does and does not...
In my previous post about cipher suites, I said that we were going to get a new elliptic curve for Silent Circle systems to use. Dan and Tanja have completed their work on our new curve and published details on their SafeCurves website. They call the...
Password security Very frequently, our users ask us what makes a password good, and how they can select a secure password that will help safeguard their online accounts from hijacking. In this post, I will attempt to detail why passwords are useful, how...
In September 2013, Silent Circle was featured in an article in Bloomberg Businessweek. The article, written by David Meyer, references a report from the NSA indicating that the US Intelligence Agency has limited Internet security mechanism capabilities....
One of the most upsetting things about the recent revelations about the NSA’s shenanigans is that it has apparently devoted US$250M to suborning international standards. (One of the very upsetting things about these revelations is that there are several...
There have been so many disclosures, revelations and speculations since Snowden fled and the media trickled out one tantalizing slide after the next- that it's hard not to get overwhelmed. It’s hard not to get angry. Now that the sheer scope and massive...
Silent Circle would like to thank the Human Rights Foundation's President and CEO, Thor Halvorssen, for introducing us to the Central Tibetan Administration's (CTA) prime minister-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay. The Sikyong has the incredibly difficult job of...
(My friend and colleague, Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn wrote an open letter to me and Phil on his blog at LeastAuthority.com. Despite this appearing on Silent Circle’s blog, I am speaking mostly for myself, only slightly for Silent Circle, and not at all for...
Coming on the heels of our announcement that we had shut down our Silent Mail service, we received a comment about securing email communications. In a recent press release, your company stated it was impossible to secure email communication 'as we know...