Security News

Secure comms app Signal now offers encrypted video calls (Help Net Security)
2017-02-15 15:03

Users of secure chat and voice call app Signal will soon be able to enjoy the option of encrypted video calls. For the moment, only calls between Signal users who have both enabled the option...

How Signal Is Evading Censorship (Schneier on Security)
2016-12-28 12:20

Signal, the encrypted messaging app I prefer, is being blocked in both Egypt and the UAE. Recently, the Signal team developed a workaround: domain fronting. Signal's new anti-censorship feature...

Signal Audit Reveals Protocol Cryptographically Sound (Threatpost)
2016-11-10 18:39

Academics audited the popular end-to-end encryption app Signal and their findings are encouraging.

Signal Protocol’s crypto core has no major flaws, researchers find (Help Net Security)
2016-11-09 13:45

A group of computer science and cryptography professors and doctoral students has effected a security analysis of the secure messaging Signal Protocol – specifically, of its Key Agreement and...