Roosters and a mountain of design
Winter Break of Code, Day One The Winter Break of Code (/blog/winter-break-of-code), being closely linked by name to the season of Winter, began with a calm trickle of ex{hausted,cited} people
Signal Blog
Signal Blog
Better than cake
Winter Break of Code, Day Two By all rights, I should not be here. My application was last-minute to say the least, and little more than a casual note that I’d be down to reprise my role from SBoC
Design of Crypto
Winter Break of Code, Day Three We are at the halfway point of Winter Break of Code. We have two homes near the beach shared by 12 people. 10 of us are working on the apps & website and 2 are
Moments to keep
Winter Break of Code, Day Six A lot of great memories will stay with me after this intense week. The house surrounded by palm trees, people with computers in every corner, laying down on a sofa,
The New TextSecure: Privacy Beyond SMS
Today’s release of TextSecure (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms) is the final step in the transition from a private SMS app to a private asynchronous IM app
Private Group Messaging
One of the major features we introduced in the TextSecure v2 (/blog/the-new-textsecure/) release was private group chat. We believe that group chat is an important feature for encrypted
Flock, Private Contact and Calendar Cloud Sync.
At Open Whisper Systems, we believe users should have both privacy and powerful services. Today we’re releasing Flock (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.anhonesteffort.flock), a
Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone
At Open Whisper Systems, we want everyone to have access to advanced secure communication tools that are as easy and reliable to use as making a normal phone call or sending a normal text message.
Winter Of Code
This January, Open Whisper Systems will be hosting a Winter Break Of Code. We’ve managed to get access to a large beachfront house in Kauai for three weeks, and we’re inviting people to join us.
Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption
At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. For the past three years, we’ve been developing a modern, open source, strong encryption protocol
Winter Of Code Lineup 2014-2015
Every year when we do this kind of call for proposals (/blog/winter-of-code), our experience from past events sets our expectations higher. Even with really high expectations this time around, we
Third Day Of Code
Winter Break Of Code Day 3 As it does every morning, the day started with Moxie singing the stand-up song, reminding us all (and waking up the slackers) that at 9am sharp we all get in a circle to
Signal to Noise
Winter Break Of Code Day 4 I’m not sure those attending their first break of code know what they are getting into. When I said “sure” to Moxie my first break, I sure didn’t
Surrendering to the Potential of Constraints
Winter Break Of Code, Day 5 The prophetic discourse of the Karai can be summed up in an observation and a promise: on the one hand, they constantly affirmed the fundamentally evil character of the
The View From here
Winter Break Of Code, Day 6 I’ve been working with Open Whisper Systems on TextSecure for about a year and a half. I feel like I’ve earned better treatment than being forced to blog at
A curve by any other name
Winter Break Of Code Day 7 Yesterday was a day of meetings. Discussion and debate flourished. Conversations ranged over all parts of every project. Words spoken aloud may have outnumbered lines of
Encryption, encryption everywhere
Winter Break Of Code Day 8 A few weeks ago, an email full of information to help prep for Winter Break of Code popped up in my inbox. Throughout my personal countdown to the day I got to leave San
The pool on the roof must have a leak
Winter Break Of Code Day 9 Today we hiked the Kalalau Trail and swam beneath the cold spray of a waterfall. Today we discussed the finer points of the axolotl protocol used by TextSecure. Today we
For the Love of Humans and Technology
Winter Break of Code Day Ten A couple of days ago, Jake (https://twitter.com/clpwn), one of the brilliant full-timers on Open Whisper Systems (https://twitter.com/signalapp), looked up from his
Aloha But Not
Winter Break Of Code Day Eleven Every morning at standup I’d watch the knife spin in slow motion, dread filling my chest and a voice in my head repeating, over and over, “not Slytherin.” (The