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31 May 2018

ACRA 0.80.0 IS HERE

We couldn’t wait till summer so the new slick version of Acra is here. Better, cooler, with improved usability and all renamed.

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29 May 2018

Reducing Docker Image Size for Acra

We tried out and described a few approaches to reducing the size of Docker images for the components of our database encryption proxy Acra. As a result, we found a way to reduce the container size by roughly 62 times.

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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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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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1 Mar 2016