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14 Aug 2018
ACRA 0.82.0 IS OUT!
Introducing AcraTranslator — store AcraStructs wherewher it is convenient now. Plus we've added pattern matching for SQL filtering in AcraCensor and number of other improvements.
6 Jul 2018
MEET ACRA 0.81.0
This release brings better prevention of SQL injections with the new AcraCensor, better handling of real-life SQL queries (including prepared statements and complex JOINs), and a lot of improvements in other key areas of Acra.
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.
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.
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.
