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...
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...
(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...
On Monday, June 24, Mark Dowd of Azimuth Security contacted us because he found some bugs in Werner Dittmann’s Open Source ZRTP library, hereafter called ZRTPCPP. We use ZRTPCPP in Silent Phone, and it is also used in a number of other VOIP systems....