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7 Apr 2016

Benchmarking Secure Comparator

This post summarizes our experiences of testing Secure Comparator as an authentication mechanism for HTTP.

While we were planning, designing and implementing Comparator, real infrastructure in which it has to function (letting Toughbase instances without shared trust to be able to exchange records and request personal data safely) was very far from being ready, but we wanted to understand how good it was for some practical applications. So we chose the obvious - seeing how SC could work as HTTP authentication mechanism.

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30 Mar 2016

Crypto in iOS: Choose your destiny (Infographic)

This blog post features infographic on how to choose crypto when developing iOS apps. It's always useful to put tool choice in context of causes (goals) and effects. This is what we've tried to do in this post.

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17 Mar 2016

Building secure end-to-end webchat with Themis

While doing some protocol design for front-end clients with WebThemis services, we wanted to try it in real-world situations first: how easily could we deploy complicated cryptographic behavior into web apps? Turns out, quite easily. This post describes one of such web apps, designed to illustrate some zero-server-trust design patterns we're using in other developments.

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14 Mar 2016

Building LibreSSL for PNaCl

As we are still using LibreSSL as a donor for some of the cryptographic primitives, with every new architecture we have to make sure that LibreSSL compiles well. This post describes our challenges with PNaCl.

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9 Mar 2016

Introducing Themis Server

Themis Server is interactive debugging environment for Themis: an easy way to try what Themis can do, debug your working code, get easy-to-test examples (specifically cooked to talk to Themis Server).

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8 Mar 2016

Building and Using Themis in PNaCl

This post outlines our experience of porting typical C/C++ library (which is obviously Themis, in our case) to PNaCl module. A few challenges, a number of interesting riddles and Themis suddenly has a new home!

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3 Mar 2016

What's wrong with Web Cryptography

Threats you may face when implementing cryptography within your web application JS way.

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1 Mar 2016

WebThemis: proper crypto for modern Web

Introducing WebThemis: a Google Chrome library to develop secure web applications.

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11 Feb 2016

Fixing Secure Comparator

After publishing Secure Comparator paper, we've received a number of concerns from the cryptographic community about possible security breach, in case, where one of the parties is intentionally falsifying the protocol. We've adressed these concerns, and, in this blog post and paper update would like to elaborate how and why.

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9 Dec 2015

Introducing Secure Comparator

Secure Comparator is a novel authentication technique we're proposing the cryptographic community to evaluate. It can be used as any id/secret pair authenticator in environments, where no trust relationships exist between two parties.

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