encryption

OpenAI's Codex CLI, a local coding agent, now encrypts sub-agent prompts to enhance security.

croc is a CLI tool that enables secure, encrypted file and folder transfers between any two computers, with cross-platform support, resume capability, and simple setup.

The European Parliament voted to extend legislation allowing Big Tech companies to voluntarily scan private messages for child sexual abuse material, despite a majority of lawmakers opposing the proposal, through a procedural maneuver that bypassed normal debate.

Chatto, a group chat application with end-to-end encryption and built-in voice/video calls, is now open source and available for self-hosting. A paid cloud hosting service, Chatto Cloud, is also announced for public beta.

Timeline of EU's Chat Control regulations, covering the voluntary scanning regime (1.0) expiration and the proposed permanent regulation (2.0) with encryption concerns.

An article exploring AT&T's rare Security-Plus Telephone from 1987, part of the NSA's STU-III secure voice encryption standard, and its place in the history of secure communications.

The EU Council is using a fast-track procedure to reinstate a temporary regulation that allows voluntary scanning of private messages by tech companies to detect child abuse material, bypassing the EU Parliament and raising concerns about digital privacy and democratic oversight.

Cloudflare's free 1.1.1.1 + WARP service encrypts and optimizes network connections to improve speed and privacy. It supports all platforms and can be used without registration.

The author details how to crack the encryption system of WeChat Mac version through reverse engineering, using Frida dynamic instrumentation to capture the key generated by the system function CCKeyDerivationPBKDF, thereby decrypting 29 encrypted databases. The goal of automatically obtaining group chat records is achieved, and the project is planned to be open-sourced.

Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory, potentially exposing them to attackers.

Introduces WeChat's mobile database framework WCDB built on SQLite and SQLCipher, and recommends related learning resources.

Autocrypt v2 introduces post-quantum encryption and reliable deletion for decentralized messaging, using hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 keys with automatic key rotation and destruction.

EU faces a double threat to private communications as European Parliament President Roberta Metsola pushes to resurrect Chat Control 1.0 and upcoming trilogue negotiations on Chat Control 2.0 risk imposing mass surveillance, warrantless scanning, and the end of anonymous communication. Civil rights activists have relaunched fightchatcontrol.eu to mobilize citizens against these undemocratic backroom deals.

SimpleX is a highly private messenger that requires no phone number, email, or user ID, funded by Jack Dorsey and Vitalik Buterin, and built by Evgeny Poberezkin. It uses one-way pipes per chat and has no user identities on the server, with a new beta version released.

secs-man is a secrets backup tool designed to be tool-independent, using age encryption and standard Unix utilities so data can be recovered even without the software itself.

The White House issued an executive order shortening the deadline for transitioning to quantum-resistant encryption to 2030/2031, citing reduced cost estimates for quantum computers and the threat of harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks.

The US government ordered Anthropic to restrict export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos, citing national security concerns. The article compares this to historical encryption export controls like PGP, arguing such controls have been largely ineffective.

This article describes a proof-of-concept tool that exploits Slack's video embed feature to achieve end-to-end encrypted messaging within Slack, using browser crypto and openpgpjs.

A petition has been launched urging the Canadian House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22, which mandates bulk metadata retention and could weaken encryption, citing privacy and security concerns.

Signal publishes a statement opposing the UK's latest surveillance proposals, arguing that surveillance undermines safety and privacy.